Key: D major•
Intro 1
A
Verse 1
B
Bm
B
Em
D
Mama died when I was young
Em
A
Just be fore my daddy left,
D
B
he hollered out at me
A
D
"Son you're a child
Em
A
of the Mississippi"
My schoolin' was a steamboat,
B
E
where I learned my rebel yell
D
Ebdim
the age of thirteen
B
A
E
A
Lord, I'm a child of the Mississippi
Verse 2
A
Ebdim
B
in Dixieland
B
F#m
E
A
Sweet child of the Mississippi
Verse 3
A
I know every stretch of river,
B
E
down south to the Memphis pyramid
D
B
and I've known since I was a kid
A
E
A
I was a child of the Mississippi
Verse 4
A
Ebdim
B
in in Dixieland
B
E
Sweet child of the Mississippi
Interlude 1
A
Em
A
Em
A
D
Ebdim
B
A
F#
B
D
E
A
Verse 5
D#dim
B
ter most of all
E
Verse 6
A
Em
G
I was raised on the river,
Em
G
A
muddy water gonna carry me home
D#dim
B
in Dixieland
B
E
A
Sweet child of the Mississippi
Sweet child of the Mississippi
Sweet child of the Mississippi
Outro 1
Sweet child of the Mississippi
A
G
Ab
A
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