Backwater - Status Quo, Francis Rossi, John Coghlan

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