Mississippi Delta Queen chords by Bobby Goldsboro

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Verse 1
G 
F 
C 
G 
D 
Skip
G 
per said,
D 
I'll race you to the levee
F 
Gonna beat you down to
C 
New
Orleans
G 
He said,
D 
I've got a paddler wheeler
That'll beat the
F 
Mississippi
C 
Delta
G 
Queen
D 
Bayou people gonna line up on the river
F 
C 
G 
Gonna come from miles to see
D 
The fastest boat on the mighty
F 
Mississippi, my good ship
C 
Robert
E.
Lee
G 
Em 
G 
Captain said, uh -uh,
Gm 
F 
there ain't nothin' faster from
C 
Memphis to
New
Orleans
G 
He said, uh -uh,
F 
there ain't a finer lady than the
C 
Mississippi
Delph
G 
D 
F 
C 
Queen
G 
D 
Skipper said, we'll start from
St.
Louis.
F 
C 
G 
Captain said, fine with me.
D 
Skipper said, it'll all be over
F 
before we reach
C 
G 
Tennessee.
D 
But one mile out on that foggy,
foggy morning,
F 
he looked toward
New
C 
G 
Orleans.
And way up front was the
D 
paddle wheel
churning on the
F 
Mississippi
C 
Delta
G 
D 
F 
C 
Queen.
G 
Two miles south of
D 
Natchez,
F 
Mississippi, the robber
C 
G 
Lee ran aground, skipper said I'll
D 
F 
have to go with her if the robber
C 
G 
Lee goes down, now the
Em 
Mississippi
C 
River ain't no place
D 
C 
Em 
to be on a cold and foggy morn
But above all the screaming
C 
and the cries of doom
D 
came the sound of a paddle
C 
wheel horn
Em 
G 
D 
Someone cried, look up to the
Mississippi
F 
C 
G 
I think I see the crown of a queen
D 
I do believe we'll all be saved by
the
F 
Mississippi
C 
Delta
G 
Queen
Skipper said, uh -huh
F 
Look up the
C 
Em 
Mississippi, finest sight I've ever seen
G 
He said, uh -huh,
F 
there ain't a finer lady than the
C 
Mississippi
Desert
G 
D 
F 
C 
Queen
G 
The captain brought the
D 
Queen behind
F 
Robin and pushed him into
New
C 
Orleans
G 
D 
The people cheered the first one to the levee,
F 
the good ship
C 
Robert
E.
G 
Lee
D 
The mayors said it looked like the
F 
winner of the race is the
C 
Robert
E.
Lee
G 
D 
But the skipper cried, hold on,
the real winner is the
F 
Mississippi
C 
Delta
G 
Queen
He said, I'd like to steal her cause there
D 
ain't a paddle wheeler like the
F 
Mississippi
C 
Delta
Queen
G 
Yeah.