Old Man River chords by The Golden Gate Quartet
Verse 1
Am
C
D
G
Bm
Em
A
D
Music
G
Here we are working on the
C
Mississippi
G
Here we all work while
A
D
the rich boss plays,
G
Pulling them bows from the
C
Cm
C
dawn till sunset.
D
G
And getting no rest till the
A
D
G
judgment day.
Bm
Em
Bm
Em
Don't look up and don't look down.
Bm
Em
Don't dare make the rich boss frown.
Bm
Em
Bm
Bend your knees an
Em
d bow your heads
Bm
Em
And pull them ropes un
Bm
Am
D
til you're dead
G
Let me go away from the
C
Mississippi,
G
Let me go away from the
A
D
rich man's boss.
G
C
Show me that stream called the
River of
Cm
C
Joyden
D
G
A
Now that's the old stream that I'd long
Aaug
D
G
C
Em
C
G
to cross
C
Well,
G
Old
Man
C
River, that
Old
G
Man
C
River,
G
C
He don't say nothing,
G
Bm
F#
he must know something,
Bbm
Bb
D
Am
But old
Man
D
Am
D
River, he just keeps rolling along,
E
G
C
G
rolling, rolling, rolling.
D
C
Bm
Am
G
C
He don't plant taters,
G
C
and he don't plant cotton,
G
C
And them that plant some
Bm
F#
are soon forgotten.
Bbm
Bb
Am
But old man
D
Am
D
Ripper, he just keeps a -rolling along,
E
G
C
G
a a a
F#
Bm
Yes, you and me,
F#
Bm
we sweat and strain
F#
Bm
But it's all a game
F#
Bm
and right with pain
F#
Bm
Here you tow that barge,
F#
Bm
leave that big hill
F#
Bm
You get a little drunk an
F#
Bm
E
Am
D
d you'll land in jail
G
C
G
C
All I do get dreary and I'm so sick of trying I'm
G
Am
D
Em
A
tired of living and feared of dy ing
But
Em
Old
Man
Ebdim
Em
River
C
Just
Am
Keeps
D
Rolling,
Rolling,
Rolling,
Am
D
Rolling, rolling, rolling.
D
G
Em
G
Old Man River
The Golden Gate Quartet
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