(ParfittLancaster)

[Backwater Just Take Me]



Down at Backwater junction rolling down the line

In the dark early morning I heard the one-forty-nine

I was walking down the highway, needed somewhere to go

A lady laid beside me and she invited me home

She led me cold, tired and hungry down the backwater road



In a house on the corner looking over the track

I woke up with a fever and a pain in my back

She was lying there beside me, my fever started to grow

Had a funny feeling but the lady said no

My lover needs a doctor down the Backwater Road



Whatcha lookin' for, whatcha lookin' for

Lady do you know what cha' lookin' for

Was I wrong to play along?

Lady was I right or lady was I wrong?



Backwater doctor, you've got me breathing in time

It's ten-thirty in the morning and I'm feeling alright

I went back to my lady but I wasn't to know

Lady left this morning and she's not coming home

I was cold when she left me down the Backwater Road



I am just a poor man, got nowhere to go

All my leaves have fallen, left me all alone

If I was a rich man, if I was a king

I would give you all I have, give you everything

If you'd just take me, just take me now

If you'd just take me



Never seen my daddy, died when I was two

Mama did the best she could, taught me all she knew

Said that love was everything, tears came to her eyes

Never knew the meaning, now I realise

Love is all you need, all you need now

If you just take me



I'm trying hard to get you, I'm not the only one

Never had a big car, but I'm not on the run

If love has got a meaning see it in my eyes

If you see the beginning, then you'd realise

Love is all you need, all you