Song Name: | The First Showboat | By: | Jerry Jeff Walker |
Posted By: | Pulp | Difficulty: | Any |
Key: | Any | Genre: | Country |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2007-08-02 20:08:31 | Modified: | 2010-12-09 14:12:19 |
Song: | This is a song from the "Night After Night" album by Jerry Jeff Walker. It's one that really caught my ear. The link below is a rather butchered video of me playing the first part, so you can hear what should be the melody. Ya know a mile 'round the bend on the O-hi-o 6 6 6 5 6 6 6 6 6 5 6 6 Com-in' up the riv-er for the Sun-day show -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 6 -5 -5 5 -5 6 There's a tub-a and a ban-jo 6 6 5 6 6 5 6 6 and a steam ca-li-o-pe 6 6 5 6 6 5 6 Way in the back is a big pad-dle-wheel -6 -6 -6 -6 6 -5 5 -5 6 -6 Chorus: What a thrill it must have been 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 Play-in Dix-ie with the folks 8 8 -8 7 7 -6 7 Up and down the river on the first show boat -8 -8 -8 -8 8 -8 7 7 -6 7 7 Repeat chorus Mom-ma took the kids, Pop-pa took the lunch, 5 6 6 5 6 5 6 6 5 6 The gents took the Belles, 6 -6 -6 -6 -6 And the whis-key took the drunks. 6 -5 5 5 -5 6 -6 But the big-gest thrill of all, 6 6 5 6 6 5 6 Ya know it had to be, 6 5 6 6 5 6 Was sitt-in in the back 6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 Play-in steam ca-li-o-pe 6 -5 5 5 -5 6 -6 Play chorus twice, then Dixie O I wish I wa-as in the Land of Cot-ton 6 5 4 4 4 -4 5 -5 6 6 6 5 Way down South we're not for-got-ten -6 -6 -6 -6 6 -6 6 -6 6 Look a-way, look a-way, look a-way Dix-ie-land -6 -7 7 6 5 6 5 4 5 -4 5 4 Well there's mag-ic in the air, 6 6 5 6 6 5 6 The rid-dles and the rhymes, 6 5 6 6 5 6 (Slow down for this line) It's slow and eas-y in the sum-mer-time 6 -6 -6 -6 6 -5 5 5 -5 6 Yeah, but who'd have e-ver thought, 6 6 5 6 6 5 6 The day would come to be, 6 5 6 6 5 6 There's oil on the wat-er 6 -6 -6 -6 -6 6 where the riv-er used to be. -5 5 5 5 -5 6 -6 Chorus twice, followed by Dixie Yeah, a mile down the bend on the O-hi-o 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 6 6 Com-in' up the riv-er for the Sun-day show -6 -6 -6 -6 -6 6 -5 5 -5 6 -6 Chorus several times, followed by Dixie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsCSPT_TmVs |