Key: C major
Verse 1
C
F
C
F
C
G
Gsus4
C
Gsus4
G
There's
C
F
an old man called the Mississippi
Am
G
like to be
C
Am
What does he care if the
G
C
land ain't free?
don't look down
Baug
Em
You don't dast make
the white boss frown
Bend your knees and bow your head
Baug
Em
F
And pull that rope un til you're dead
G
C
F
Let me go away from the Mississippi
C
Am
Gsus4
Let me go away from the white man boss,
G
G
Am
D
That's the old stream that I long
G
C
Gsus4
to cross.
C
Am
C
F
Old Man River, that Old Man River,
C
F
He must know something,
C
G
Am
but don't say nothin'
Dm
G
He just keeps rollin',
D
G
C
F
C
he keeps on rollin' along
G
C
Am
He don't plant taters,
C
F
he don't plant cotton
C
G
And them that plants them
C
Ebdim
is soon forgotten
D
Dsus4
G
But old man River,
Dm
Gsus4
G
C
F
C
he just keeps rolling along
B
Em
You and me, we sweat and strain
Bodies all aching and wracked with pain
Hook that barge, lift that bail
Baug
Em
You show a little grip an
F
G
d you land in jail
C
F
C
But I keep laughing instead of crying
F
C
G
Am
D
I must keep fighting until I'm dy ing
Gsus4
G
Abdim
An old man river,
Am
Dm
G
C
F
G
he just keeps rolling along you
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