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The First Showboat

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[Verse]
YoGu know a mile around the bend on the Ohio
CFoming up the river for the SCundGay sChow
There's a tGuba and a banjo and a steam calliope
WFay in the back there's a bCig pGaddle Cwheel
[Chorus]
What a thrGill it musta been, playing DiCxie for the folks
DUp and down the river on the fCirst showGboat
What a thrill it musta been, playing DiCxie for the folks
DUp and down the river on the fCirst showGboat
[Verse]
MoGmma took the kids and papa took the lunch
TFhe kids took the bells and the wChiskey tGook the Cdrunks
BuGt the biggest thrill of all, you know it had to be
WFas sitting up front playing steaCm GcallioCpe
[Chorus]
WeGll there's magic in the air, they're fiddlin the rhymes
IFt's slow and easy in the CsummeGrtCime
YeGah, but who'd of ever thought, the day would come to be
WFhere there's oil on the waters where the Crivers Gused to Cbe
[Chorus]
YeGah a mile around the bend on the Ohio
CFoming up the river for the CSundaGy Cshow
[Chorus] 
N.C.
If you want to play along with the "Dixieland" theme as on Night After Night, the chords are 
G    G    C   C    G    Em    D   G C G

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The First Showboat

by Jerry Jeff Walker

Lyrics & chords · Original key

Chords in this song · guitar

[Verse]

You know a mile around the bend on the Ohio

F C G C

Coming up the river for the Sunday show

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

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

D C G

Up and down the river on the first showboat

[Verse]

Momma took the kids and papa took the lunch

F C G C

The kids took the bells and the whiskey took the drunks

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

F C G C

Was sitting up front playing steam calliope

[Chorus]

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

F C G C

It's slow and easy in the summertime

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]

Yeah a mile around the bend on the Ohio

F C G C

Coming up the river for the Sunday show

[Chorus]

N.C.

If you want to play along with the "Dixieland" theme as on Night After Night, the chords are

G G C C G Em D G C G

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