Big Boat Up The River
Big Boat Up The River

Big Boat Up The River easy guitar chords by Harry Belafonte

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 3

Capo

Transpose

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  • C#

    4

  • A

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  • Dm

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  • C#

    4

  • A

    • Verse 1

    Big boat 
    on the 
    river 

    hauling 
    seven 
    ton 

    Coming 
    up from 
    Natchez 
    on the 

    Memphis 
    run

    Paddle 
    wheel a slip
    ping 
    an

    d the keel 
    done 
    cracked 

    Mean old 
    Mississippi 

    trying to 
    hold 
    me back 

    Won't 
    Verse 2
    somebody 
    tell 

    my 
    woman 

    Somebody 
    tell 
    my 
    wo
    man 

    Somebody 
    tell 
    my 
    woman 

    Big 
    Verse 3
    boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and 

    it won't 
    come down 

    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and it 

    won't 
    come down 

    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and it 
    won't 

    come down 

    Verse 4
    Captain 
    told the 
    stokers, 

    well, 
    pack her 
    tight 

    Got to 
    get to 
    Memphis 

    by tomorrow 
    night 

    Coming 
    off the 
    delta, 

    well the 
    far 
    done sat 

    Captain, 
    lord, 
    cap
    tain, 

    tell me, 
    where we 
    at? 

    Some
    body 
    tell 
    my 
    Verse 5
    woman 

    Somebody 
    tell 
    my 
    woman 

    Somebody 
    tell 
    my 
    woman 

    Verse 6
    Big 
    boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and 

    it won't 
    come down 

    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and it 

    won't 
    come down 

    Big boat 
    up the river 
    an
    d 

    it 
    won't 
    come down 

    Verse 7
    Big 
    boat, I'm 
    coming 
    in the 

    pitch 
    black night 

    That 
    Mis
    sissippi 
    fog 
    that 

    hits the 
    pilot's 
    light 

    Gauging, 
    Mr. 
    Gauger 
    what's that 

    rumbling 
    sound 

    Sandbank 
    dead ahead 
    and 

    we done 
    run aground 

    Somebody 
    tell 
    Verse 8
    my 
    woman 

    Somebody 
    tell 
    my 
    woman 

    Somebody 
    tell 
    my 
    woman 

    Verse 9
    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 
    an
    d it 

    won't 
    come down 

    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and 

    it won't 
    come down 

    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 

    and it won't 
    come down 

    My 
    woman 
    say she 
    Verse 10
    loves me 

    and 
    I know 
    it's true 

    But 
    I done 
    done something 

    that you 
    just 
    don't 
    do 

    Stayed 
    away from 
    home too 

    long and 
    now 
    I 
    see 

    Some 
    Natchez 
    man is 
    trying to 

    take my 
    gal 
    from me 

    He's 
    Verse 11
    messing 
    'round 

    with my 
    woman 

    Messing 
    'round 
    with my 

    woman 

    He's messing 
    'round 

    Verse 12
    with 
    my woman 

    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and 

    it won't 
    come down 

    Big 
    boat up the 
    river 
    and 

    it won't 
    come 
    down 

    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and 

    it won't 
    come 
    down 

    Verse 13
    When 
    I get 
    off this 
    wheeler, 

    gonna 
    stay 
    on land 

    Gonna 
    take my 
    little 
    woman, 

    well- 
    a, by the 
    hand 

    Build 
    me 
    a cabin 
    on 
    a high 
    old hill 

    Get 
    me 
    a rocking- 
    chair 

    and sit right 
    still 

    But some 
    quiet 
    night 
    when the 

    wind 
    will shift 

    The sounds 
    from the 
    river 

    will begin 
    to 
    drift 

    Some 
    lonely 
    rambler 
    with 
    a tearful 
    eye 

    Will 
    touch 
    my 
    heart 
    with 

    his mournful 
    cry 

    Verse 14
    Somebody 
    tell 
    my 
    woman 

    Somebody 
    tell 
    my 
    woman 

    Somebody 
    tell 
    my 
    woman 

    Big 
    boat 
    up the 
    Verse 15
    river 
    and 

    it won't 
    come down 

    Big 
    boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and 
    it 

    won't 
    come down 

    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and 

    it 
    won't 
    come down 

    Verse 16
    Big 
    boat up the 
    river 
    and 

    it won't 
    come down 

    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and 

    it won't 
    come down 

    Big boat 
    up the 
    river 
    and it 
    won't, 

    won't 
    come 
    down 



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