Key: Db major
Verse 1
C
F
C
Here we all work
on the Mississippi,
F
C
Am
Here we all work while
D
G
the white folk play,
F
Ddim
the dawn till sunset
C
Am
Gettin' no rest till the
F
Gsus4
C
judgment day
Em
Ebdim
Don't look up and
Em
Ebdim
don't look down
Em
Ebdim
You don't dare make
B
Em
Ebdim
And bow their brow until
Em
Dm
G
you're dead.
C
F
Let me go away from the Mississippi.
C
Am
D
Let me go away from the
F
Ddim
River Jordan
C
Am
That's the old stream that
D
G
C
Eb
G
I long to follow
C
F
I know that old man river,
C
F
C
that old man river
G
C
He must know somethin'
G
G
I know he just keep on rollin'
I want you to know
C
F
C
F
C
along
C
F
He don't plant cotton,
C
G
and them folk that plant them,
C
Em
Ebdim
soon forgotten
Ddim
G
But that old man river,
G
Gdim
Gm
G
somehow he just keep on rollin',
C
C#
F#m
rollin' along
G#m
C#
Ddim
C#
F#m
You and me
G#m
C#
F#m
We got the sweat and strain
G#m
C#
F#m
Bodies all aching
C#
F#m
Rack with pain
C#
F#m
Told that barge, somebody said,
C#
F#m
lift that veil.
Ebdim
B
Em
A
Am
you gonna land in jail.
D
G
D
You know, I get weary
G
D
And so sick of trying
D
F#
Bbaug
That old man at
Bm
Gm
the river now
Verse 2
D
Bm
Em
I said he just, the man just keep
A
A
D
G
D
rollin' along
you
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