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Delta Blues songs are typically about day-to-day struggles or problems that are faced in the singer's life. Common song focuses include relationships, travel, society, life in general and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The flood impacted many people in the Mississippi Delta and was written about by many artists afterwards. Over 25 records relating in someway to the flood were recorded by Delta musicians who either were affected by the disaster or heard about it from someone else. Charley Patton, who was from the area, sung about the flood and was likely accurate in the details. Patton mentions many Delta towns by name in the song and describes the damage done by the water. Since blues is built on emotion, the devastating impact of flooding in the delta was a very important theme, representing a difficult to handle situation. Eventually a majority of these blues musicians, who were all black, migrated North in search for better lives, yet the messages in the music remained the same.