The Coldness of the Water - the Growler

Here's a great one from the Growler released in 1939.





Coldness of the Water - The Growler

It seems as though me wife going mad
Because I left the shouters she talk me bad
It seems as though me wife going mad
Because I left the shouters she talk me bad

The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead
The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead

She said to me, "Ozzie you must be bold"
Because the dipping in the river bound to save your soul
If that is the way to find the lord
Not me she wouldn't send me in [B.H.? P.H.? ward??]

The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead
The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead

To save me soul I was more than glad
But when she dipped me in the river I felt so bad
Water in me nose and inside me mouth
To hear the congregation how they start to shout

The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead
The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead

They took me up to the mourning ground
And all I saw was lighted candles all around
Candles start the road back to number 3
And said I'm on my way to Galilee

The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead
The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead

The preacher tell me when I reach the Galilee
All me sins would be washed away entirely
But I got too much tied and burdened down
Because I never meet no food at any mourning ground

The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead
The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead

It is a thing for the foolish, but not the wise
To be tying up your head and banding down your eyes
For when the power comes it got no sympathy
You got to be beating up your body so brutally

The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead
The coldness of the water nearly kill The Growler dead


Key: Bb/Gm

Chords:

Gm Cm Gm D7
Gm Cm Gm F

Bb F Bb F
Bb F Bb F