Key: Bb major
Verse 1
C#m
F#
D#m
F#
B
D#m
There's an old
B
E
man called the Mississippi
A
B
Now that's the old man
G#m
A
F#m
that I like to be
B
Oh, what does he care if the
E
Em
A
world's got troubles?
G#m
C#
What does he care if the land's not
C#m
F#
free?
B
F#sus4
B
F#sus4
Verse 2
B
F#sus4
Ol' man river
B
F#sus4
That ol' man river
B
C#m
Well, he must know somethin'
D#m
G#
But he don't say nothin'
C#m
F#
He keeps on rollin'
C#m
F#
B
He just keeps rollin' along
F#sus4
Verse 3
B
F#sus4
B
F#sus4
Man don't plant taters
B
F#sus4
F#
And he don't plant cotton
D#m
E
Yes, and them those plants
G#m
C#
them is soon forgotten
C#m
He
Verse 4
F#
keeps on rollin'
G#sus4
C#m
F#sus4
He just keeps rollin'
along
B
F#sus4
Verse 5
B
A#
D#m
G#
Oh, you and me,
D#m
G#
D#m
we're just the same
Fm
A#
D#m
Bodies all achin' and wracked
G#
A#
D#m
with pain
C#
B
A#
F#aug
Tote that barge, better lift that bale
D#m
A#
You get a little drunk and
D#m
G#
C#m
F#
you land in jail
Verse 6
B
F#sus4
I get weary
B
F#
F#sus4
And sick of tryin'
B
C#m
'Til I'm tired of livin'
D#m
B
E
And I'm scared of dyin'
Verse 7
A
G#m
But ol' man river,
C#m
F#
he keeps on rollin'
D#m
G#
That ol' man river,
C#m
D#m
E
he just keeps on rollin'
B
Gdim
G#m
I said that ol' man river,
C#m
F#sus4
F#
B
F#sus4
keeps on rollin' along
B
F#sus4
Ol' man river
B
E
Em
A
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