Lightnin Hopkins California Mudslide Lyrics

California Mudslide Lyrics

Take me out this bottom, take me out this bottom baby,

        Little girl
'fore this water rise

Take me out this bottom, take me out this bottom,

        Little girl 'fore this water rise

Why you know I must be born
by the devil

        Po' Lightnin' don't wanna be baptised



(You see it's raining in all California when I said -

The hide is
sliding down off the hills -

Many, many, many friends have lost their
home -

Just because the water was falling so hard

and the mudslide
had taken their home -

And I said -)



[guitar chorus, over
which:]

Then you know how it's happening now



Take me out
this bottom, take me out this bottom baby

        Po' Lightnin' can't
feel satisfied

Take me out this bottom, take me out this bottom

   
    Po' Lightnin' just can't feel satisfied

Did you know how many friends
of mine lost their home

        By that old mudslide?



Don't
take me to be wrong people,

        Forgive me for my mistakes

You
know, please, please, please,

        Forgive me for my mistake

But
after all that flood come in California, do you know

        The good
Lord's ground begin to shake

(They said an earthquake it was comin')



[guitar chorus, over which:]

Have mercy