Jerry Jeff Walker - The First Showboat

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[[Verse]]

  G
You know a mile around the bend on the Ohio

 F                                             C  G   C
Coming up the river for the Sunday show

                 G
There's a tuba and a banjo and a steam calliope

 F                                           C   G        C
Way in the back there's a big paddle wheel


[[Chorus]]

                G                                                 C
What a thrill it musta been, playing Dixie for the folks

D                                                  C              G
Up and down the river on the first showboat

                                                                  C
What a thrill it musta been, playing Dixie for the folks

D                                                  C              G
Up and down the river on the first showboat


[[Verse]]

  G
Momma took the kids and papa took the lunch

 F                                                    C          G          C
The kids took the bells and the whiskey took the drunks

  G
But the biggest thrill of all, you know it had to be

 F                                                    C G        C
Was sitting up front playing steam calliope


[[Chorus]]

  G
Well there's magic in the air, they're fiddlin the rhymes

 F                                          C       G C
It's slow and easy in the summertime chordband.com

  G
Yeah, but who'd of ever thought, the day would come to be

 F                                                                      C         G          C
Where there's oil on the waters where the rivers used to be


[[Chorus]]

  G
Yeah a mile around the bend on the Ohio

 F                                            C       G C
Coming up the river for the Sunday show


[[Chorus]]

  G
If you want to play along with the "Dixieland"

 F                                                   C         G       C
theme as on Night After Night, the chords are

G  G  C  C  G  Em  D
G C G