Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Riverboat , by - Bill Anderson. Song from the album The First 10 Years, 1956 – 1966, in the genre КантриRelease date: 12.06.2011
Record label: Bear Family
Song language: English
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 |
| 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… |
| 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… |