Ode To Ol' John Doe

The Blackwater Fever are an Australian blues guitar-drums band, formed in Brisbane, Queensland in 2005. They were awarded Best Blues & Roots Act at the 2006 Sunshine Coast Music Festival. They issued their debut five-track extended play, Abused Blues, in January 2006 by the founding duo of Shane Hicks on vocals and guitar; and Rick DeMarco on drums. The tracks had been recorded live-in-the-studio at OPM Studios, Brisbane. Hicks and DeMarco co-wrote "Blackwater", which provided the band's name, Hicks later recalled "[we were] brain storming for a band name we were having a hell of a time trying to come up with something. One of the first guitar/drums songs we wrote together was called ‘Blackwater’ and it’s about people catching a fever from drinking tainted wa… more »

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The river is wide
When the tide is high
Harboring you

Innocence hides
The devil inside
Deep in you

From the sea
Through the reeds
Creatures take you
Piece by piece

And there he lays
Just under the waves
Through and through

The river she cries
And the willow replied
Don't weep for him

Now the hour is late
The witch will awake
To stir her brew

Mosquitos are rife
Eat you alive
Prick by prick
They stuck you dry

A lone violin
For the killer within
Cries for you

The amber it bleeds
Down from the trees
In a silent hue

Above in the sky
The all-seeing eye
Glares down at you

Only heaven knows
What in hell bellows
And it pulls you down
Bone by bone

And there you'll stay
In a fiery grave
Sealed in doom

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Written by: Shane Hicks

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