Key: Db major
Verse 1
F#
C#sus4
F#
F#
B
all work on the Mississippi,
F#
C#
Here we all work while the white folks play,
F#
Pullin' those boats
from the dawn to sunset,
B
C#sus4
F#
C#
Gettin' no rest till the Judgment Day.
F#
A#m
Don't look up and don't
look down
You don't ask,
make the White Boss frown
Adim
A#m
Adim
A#m
An d pull that rope until
C#sus4
C#
you're dead
B
Bm
Show me that stream called
B
F#
River Jordan
C#
F#
that I long to cross
C#
F#
B
Old Man River,
F#
B
that Old Man River,
F#
B
he must know something,
F#
D#m
but he don't say nothing.
G#
C#
He just keeps rollin',
G#m
C#
F#
B
F#
he keeps on rollin' along.
B
F#
B
He don't plant taters,
B
F#
B
And them that plant some
F#
Adim
is soon forgotten.
G#
G#m
C#
But old man River,
G#m
C#
F#
D#m
he just keeps rolling along.
Body aching and I'm wracked with pain.
Tote that march, lift that bale
D#m
A#m
Get a little drunk and you'll
G#m
C#
land in jail
F#
D#m
F#
B
Ah, gets weary and sick of trying
F#
B
A#m
G#
I'm tired of livin' but fear of dyin'
C#
D#m
But old Man River,
G#m
C#sus4
C#
he just keeps rollin' along!
F#
B
F#
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