The First Showboat

Tipo de gaita: Diatônica
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This is a song from the "Night After Night" album by Jerry JeffWalker.  It's one that really caught my ear.  The link below is arather butchered video of me playing the first part, so you can hearwhat should be the melody.

Ya know a mile 'round the bend on the O-hi-o
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Com-in' up the riv-er for the Sun-day show
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There's a tub-a and a ban-jo 
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and a steam ca-li-o-pe
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Way in the back is a big gal-ler-y 
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( I think that's what he says, it could gathering instead ofgallery.)

Chorus:
What a thrill it must have been
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Play-in Dix-ie with the folks
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Up and down the river on the first show boat
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Repeat chorus

Mom-ma took the kids, Pop-pa took the lunch,
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The gents took the Belles, 
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And the whis-key took the drunks.  
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But the big-gest thrill of all,
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Ya know it had to be,
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Was sitt-in in the back
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Play-in steam ca-li-o-pe
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Play chorus twice, then Dixie

O I wish I wa-as in the Land of Cot-ton
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Way down South we're not for-got-ten
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Look a-way, look a-way, look a-way Dix-ie-land
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Well there's mag-ic in the air,
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The rid-dles and the rhymes,
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(Slow down for this line)
It's slow and eas-y in the sum-mer-time
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Yeah, but who-ve e-ver thought,
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The day would come to be,
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There's oil on the wat-er 
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where the riv-er used to be.  
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Chorus twice, followed by Dixie

Yeah, a mile down the bend on the O-hi-o
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Com-in' up the riv-er for the Sun-day show
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Chorus several times, followed by Dixie.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsCSPT_TmVs