Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The First Showboat , by - Jerry Jeff Walker. Release date: 05.07.2006
Song language: English
The First Showboat |
| Yeah a mile around the bend down the Ohio |
| Comin up the river for the Sunday show |
| There’s a tuba and a banjo and a steam calliope |
| Sittin on the deck of the big paddlewheel |
| What a thrill it must have been play in Dixie for the folks |
| Up and down the river on the first showboat |
| What a thrill it must have been play in Dixie for the folks |
| Up and down the river on the first showboat |
| Yeah well poppa took the kids, momma took the lunch |
| The gents took the belles and the whiskey took the drunks |
| But the biggest thrill of all you know it had to be |
| Way up front playin steam calliope |
| What a thrill it must have been play in Dixie for the folks |
| Up and down the river on the first showboat |
| What a thrill it must have been playin Dixie for the folks |
| Up and down the river on the first showboat |
| Yeah there’s magic in the air riddle in the rhymes |
| Slow and easy in the summertime |
| Yeah an who’d a ever thought it could come to be |
| That Jim Crows flyin where the eagle ought to be |