The First Showboat by Jerry Jeff Walker, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

The First Showboat

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Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York, on 16 March 1942; died 23 October 2020) was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for writing the 1968 song "Mr. Bojangles".

During the late 1950s, Crosby was a member of a local Oneonta teen band called The Tones. The band traveled to Philadelphia to audition for Dick Clark's "American Bandstand", but were turned down. Members of the band found Dick Clark's

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Four years of hard work!

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[Verse]
G
You know a mile around the bend on the Ohio
F C G C
Coming up the river for the Sunday show
G
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
C
What a thrill it musta been, playing Dixie for the folks
D C G
Up and down the river on the first showboat

[Verse]
G
Momma took the kids and papa took the lunch
F C G C
The kids took the bells and the whiskey took the drunks
G
But the biggest thrill of all, you know it had to be
F C G C
Was sitting up front playing steam calliope

[Chorus]
G
Well there's magic in the air, they're fiddlin the rhymes
F C G C
It's slow and easy in the summertime
G
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]
G
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