Jerry Jeff Walker – The First Showboat (Guitar)

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You know a mile around the bend on the Ohio

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Coming up the river for the Sunday show

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There's a tuba and a banjo and a steam calliope

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Way in the back there's a big paddle wheel

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What a thrill it musta been, playing Dixie for the folks

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Up and down the river on the first showboat

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What a thrill it musta been, playing Dixie for the folks

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Up and down the river on the first showboat

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Momma took the kids and papa took the lunch

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The kids took the bells and the whiskey took the drunks

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But the biggest thrill of all, you know it had to be

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Was sitting up front playing steam calliope

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Well there's magic in the air, they're fiddlin the rhymes

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It's slow and easy in the summertime

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Yeah, but who'd of ever thought, the day would come to be

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Where there's oil on the waters where the rivers used to be

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Yeah a mile around the bend on the Ohio

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Coming up the river for the Sunday show