Riverboat

Well I spent the better part of my life on a Mississippi riverboat I used to be known from coast to coast as the slickest gambler afloat I've dealt the cards from Minnesota to the harbor at New Orleans Made a lotta big money on the riverboat loved a lotta pretty riverboat queens Riverboat riverboat I love your whistle's wail I wish I was back on the riverboart stead of in the Memphis jail [ banjo ] Well a big man got on the riverboat our last time in St Paul He had a lotta money but his luck went bad and the riverboat won it all He said I dealt from the bottom of the deck and he pulled a shiny knife But before that gambler lunged at me my forty-four took his life Riverboat riverboat... [ banjo ] Well they came on the boat and they took me to jail when we got to Tennessee A gamblin' man has very few friends guess nobody cared for me Well I might be here for a many long years but if I ever get out I'm gonna head straight for that levee and get me a riverboat headin' south Riverboat riverboat...