Riverboat chords by Bill Anderson, The Jordanaires

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Well I spent the better part of
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my life on a Mississippi riverboat
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I used to be known from coast to coast
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as the slickest gambler afloat
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I've dealt the cards from Minnesota
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to the harbor at New Orleans
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Made a lotta big money on the riverboat loved a lotta
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pretty riverboat queens
Riverboat riverboat I love
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your whistle's wail
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I wish I was back on the riverboart stead
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of in the Memphis jail
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[ banjo ]
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Well a big man got on the
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riverboat our last time in St Paul
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He had a lotta money but his luck went
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bad and the riverboat won it all
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He said I dealt from the bottom of
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the deck and he pulled a shiny knife
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But before that gambler lunged at me my
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forty- four took his life
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Riverboat riverboat...
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Well they came on the boat and they took
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me to jail when we got to Tennessee
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A gamblin' man has very few friends
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guess nobody cared for me
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Well I might be here for a many
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long years but if I ever get out
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I'm gonna head straight for that levee and get me
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a riverboat headin' south