Key: D minor
Intro 1
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Tin shacks and catfish bones
Verse 1
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Em
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Have been about all I've ever known.
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Thunder and lightning,
Verse 2
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I said the catfish are biting,
I took a riverboat downstream.
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Verse 3
they are gathering.
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Above my head, they are circling.
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Old friends coming out visiting,
about collecting.
Believe I'm fixing to die.
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When you're living in the country it's, "why,
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oh
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why?"
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Oh, I'm
Verse 4
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F
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home.
Verse 5
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Look over yonder there,
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On the farther shore.
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Look over yonder there.
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I see a ship of gold.
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Am
I see a ship of gold.
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Beyond that mountain there,
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I see a Citty- on- the- Hille.
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Its gates are open wide.
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A
I hear the ringing bells.
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Look over yonder there,
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On toward the burying ground.
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Poor boy is all afire.
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Poor boy is dead and gone.
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
days
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The Ship of Gold
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To hear the horns of Jubilee.
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Bm
Interlude 2
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Verse 7
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The bullfrog sleeps all day.
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Believe I'll take my rest.
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Verse 8
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Oh, I'm sorry that I left my home.
Outro 1
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C
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