Black Water

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Verse 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 
 
       
       
   
    
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     Old black water, keep on rollin'     
       
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     Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?  
                                                   Old black water,  
                                                   keep on rollin'  
       
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     Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?  
                                                   Old black water,  
                                                   keep on rollin'  
       
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     Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?  
       
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     Yeah, keep on shinin' your light, gonna make every thing  
       
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     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  

       
       
      
Verse 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)