Key: A major
Intro 1
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D
Verse 1
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"Don't go near that river
Don't be hanging around
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Old Catfish John
Come in the morning,
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G
Sweet Delta Dawn"
Verse 2
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G
Take me back to another morning
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To a time so long ago
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When the sweet Magnolia blossomed
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Cotton fields as white as snow
Verse 3
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Catfish John was a river hobo
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Who lived and died by the river's bed
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G
Looking back, I still remember
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I was proud to be his friend
Verse 4
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near that river
Don't be hanging around
D
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Old Catfish John
Come in the morning,
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D
G
Walking in his footsteps in the Sweet Delta Dawn"
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Interlude 1
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D
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D
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Verse 5
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Born a slave in the town of Vicksburg
C
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Traded for a chestnut mare
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Lord, her never spoke in anger
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Though his load was hard to bear
Verse 6
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D
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"Don't go near that river
Come in the morning,
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D
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Walking in his footsteps in the Sweet Delta Dawn
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D
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C
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D
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C
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D
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Walking in his footsteps
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in the Sweet Delta Dawn"
Outro 1
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ChordsG D C
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