Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well I spent the better part
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of 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 in New Orleans
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I made a lotta big money on the riverboat I loved a
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lotta 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
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Oh 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 the
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deck and he pulled a shiny knife
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But before that gambler lunged at me my 44 took his
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life
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Riverboat riverboat...
Verse 3
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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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So I might be here for a many long
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years but if I ever get out
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I'm gonna head straight for
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that levee and get me
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S riverboat headin' south
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Riverboat riverboat...
Stead of in the Memphis
Outro 1
jail
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