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Verso 1:
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Well, I built me a raft and she's ready for floatin'
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ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name
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Catfish are jumpin' that paddle wheel thumpin'
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Black water keeps rollin' on past just the same
G
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Bb G
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?
Old black water,
keep on rollin'
Bb G
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?
Old black water,
keep on rollin'
Bb A ' ' Em7
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?
A Em7 A Em7
Yeah, keep on shinin' your light, gonna make every thing
A Em7
Pretty mama, gonna make everything all right
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And I ain't got no worries 'cause I ain't in no hurry at all
Verso 2:
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Well, if it rains, I don't care, don't make no difference to me
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Just take that street car that's goin' up town Yeah, I'd like to
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hear some funky Dixieland and dance a honky tonk, and I'll be
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buyin' everybody drinks all roun'-------
CHORUS, followed by guitar/fiddle solos, then:
ENDING {1: with music, 2/3: a capella, then with music, repeat and fade}:
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I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland, pretty momma come and take me
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by the hand, by the hand, take me by the hand,
(I want to honky-tonk) (honky-tonk)
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pretty momma, come and dance with your daddy all night long, I'd like to...
(honky-tonk) (with you all night long)