Key: B major•
Verse 1
B
A
G
F#
B
Niggas all work
C#
F#
white folks play
C
B
F#
B
from the dawn to sunset
look down
You don't just make
the white horse frown
A#
B
D#m
B
Bend your knees and bow your head
D#m
B
F#
And pull that rope until you're dead
E
B
C#
Let me go away from the white man boss
F#
B
Show me that stream called
the River Jordan
C
Em
Bm
That's the old stream
B
F#
that I long to cross
B
G#m
Old Man River,
B
G#m
that Old Man River,
B
E
he must know something,
B
G#m
but don't say noth in',
C#m
F#
he just keeps rollin',
B
D
C#m
he keeps on rollin' along.
F#sus4
B
C#
He don't plant taters,
B
C#
he don't plant cotton
B
G#m
D#m
Dm
And then that plantin' is soon forgotten
C#m
F#
But old man River,
C#sus4
F#
B
he just keeps rollin' along
A#
D#m
You an d me, we sweat and strain
While the old acorn had racked with pain
Hold that barge and lift that bale
D#
D#m
D#
E
D#m
F#
an d you land in jail
B
G#m
B
E
I get sweary and sick of trying
B
F#
D#m
C#
I'm tired of liv ing and fear of dying
B
Baug
G#m
But home and river,
C#sus4
C#
F#
B
C#
F
B
he keeps the West alone.
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