Big River Big Man chords

Claude King

Key: 

Simplify chords 

  			
Intro: Eb 

#1. 
Eb 
Way down on Mississippi, big river, came a  
           Bb 
mighty big man. 
Bb 
He built a town on that river and owned  
                   Eb 
everything in that land. 
Eb 
He fell in love and married a girl, she was  
                    Bb 
young and mean, and wild. 
Bb   
He vowed he'd tame her but it couldn't been done, 
                              Eb 
she was truly the Devil's own child. 


    Bb 
Big river (keep on flowin', flowin.') 
    Eb 
Big man (keep on growing, growing.) 
    Bb 
Big river (keep on flowin', flowin.') 
    Eb 
Big man (keep on growing, growing.) 


Bridge: 
          Ab                Eb 
Well, the love you have for greed and power will  
Bb              Eb 
surely pull you down. 
    Ab                     Eb 
You lose your friends, you lose your soul, in the  
Bb                         Eb 
empire city, the big man's town. 


    Bb 
Big river (keep on flowin', flowin.') 
    Eb 
Big man (keep on growing, growing.) 
    Bb 
Big river (keep on flowin', flowin.') 
    Eb 
Big man (keep on growing, growing.) 


#2. 
Eb 
Look down in the water all around you, hear the  
                  Bb 
steamboat whistle blow. 
Bb              
Come on big man, get moving, you got a long way  
   Eb 
to go. 
Eb 
Just like the big river, big man, you gotta move  
       Bb 
on and on. 
Bb 
Take your money, keep your gold, you're gonna be  
         Eb 
left all alone. 

    Bb 
Big river (keep on flowin', flowin.') 
    Eb 
Big man (keep on growing, growing.) 
    Bb 
Big river (keep on flowin', flowin.') 
    Eb 
Big man (keep on growing, growing.) 


Bridge: 
          Ab                Eb 
Well, the love you have for greed and power will  
Bb              Eb 
surely pull you down. 
    Ab                     Eb 
You lose your friends, you lose your soul, in the  
Bb                         Eb 
empire city, the big man's town. 


    Bb 
Big river (keep on flowin', flowin.') 
    Eb 
Big man (keep on growing, growing.) 
    Bb 
Big river (keep on flowin', flowin.') 
    Eb 
Big man (keep on growing, growing.) 


OUTRO: 
    Bb 
Big river (keep on flowin', flowin.')..(Fade.)