Key: F major
Verse 1
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Big boat on the river
hauling seven ton
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Coming up from Natchez on the
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Paddle wheel a slipping an
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Fm
d the keel done cracked
trying to hold me back
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Won't
Verse 2
somebody tell
my woman
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F
Somebody tell my woman
Verse 3
it won't come down
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Fm
Big boat up the river and it
won't come down
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Fm
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Big boat up the river and it won't
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Bb
Fm
come down
Verse 4
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Ab
well the far done sat
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Captain, lord, captain,
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Fm
tell me, where we at?
Verse 5
woman
Somebody tell my woman
Somebody tell my woman
Verse 6
it won't come down
Big boat up the river and it
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Ab
Big boat up the river an d
Verse 7
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F
That Mississippi fog that
hits the pilot's light
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Gauging, Mr. Gauger what's that
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Somebody tell
Verse 8
my woman
Verse 9
and it won't come down
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My woman say she
Verse 10
loves me
and I know it's true
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But I done done something
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Stayed away from home too
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long and now I see
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Some Natchez man is trying to
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take my gal from me
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He's
Verse 11
with my woman
Messing 'round with my
woman
He's messing 'round
Verse 12
with my woman
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
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
Verse 15
river and
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Big boat up the river and it
Big boat up the river and
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it won't come down
Verse 16
it won't come down
Big boat up the river and it won't,
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Bb
won't come down
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