Skippin' in the Mississippi Dew

John Hartford

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Intro

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Verse 1

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Well, I dream of a girl and a stern-wheel steamboat
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A pilothouse stove and engine room brass
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Hanging on a post by the main deck stairway
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With a long hair skippin' in the Mississippi dew

Instrumental

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Chorus

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Oh, the river run wide, run deep, run muddy
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Oh, the river run long after I am gone
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With the steamboat wheeling on a big wide bend
                     G           C
Just skippin' in the Mississippi dew

Instrumental

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Verse 2

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Well, I went up the river come way last Sunday
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Twelve feet of water on the Memphis gauge
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Wouldn't be home without the muddy water rolling
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Paddle wheel skippin' in the Mississippi dew

Instrumental

C C F G
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Chorus

        C                   F         C
Oh, the river run wide, run deep, run muddy
        F                    G
Oh, the river run long after I am gone
         C                       F        C
With the steamboat wheeling on a big wide bend
                     G           C
Just skippin' in the Mississippi dew

Instrumental

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Verse 3

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Now it used to be Spring I'd ship on the river
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Thirty five days on a bally line load
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I'd make a little money, get a springtime chicken
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And take off a skippin' in the Mississippi dew

Instrumental

C C F G
C C F G

Chorus

        C                   F         C
Oh, the river run wide, run deep, run muddy
        F                    G
Oh, the river run long after I am gone
         C                       F        C
With the steamboat wheeling on a big wide bend
                     G           C
Just skippin' in the Mississippi dew

Instrumental

C C F G
C C F G

Chorus

        C                   F         C
Oh, the river run wide, run deep, run muddy
        F                    G
Oh, the river run long after I am gone
         C                       F        C
With the steamboat wheeling on a big wide bend
                     G           C
Just skippin' in the Mississippi dew

Outro

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