| All you cotton toters,
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| Mississippi floaters,
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| Gather all about!
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| Gather all about!
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| Got some things to tell ya.
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| Not a thing to sell ya.
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| Listen and you’ll all find out.
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| What I’m about to say
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| WIll take your breath away,
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| So, come a little closer,
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| Just a little closer,
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| Got a lotta news to shout! |
| Say!
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| Good people, you’re invited tonight
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| To the Riverboat Shuffle!
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| Good people, we got rhythm tonight
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| At the Riverboat Shuffle!
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| They tell me that slidepipe tooter is grand,
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| Best in Loosianna;
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| So bring your freighter, come and alligator that band.
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| Mister Hawkins on the tenor!
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| Good people, you’ll hear Milenberg Joys
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| In a special orches-stration!
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| Even Mamma Dinah will be there to strut for the boys
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| I’n a room full of noise.
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| She’ll teach you to shuffle it right,
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| So, bring your baby; |