Catfish John

C                  F
Mama said don't go near that river
C                                 
Don't be hanging around old 
  G7
Catfish John
C                        F
But come the morning I'd always be 
there
C                           G7   
Walking in his footsteps in sweet
       C
 delta dawn


[Verse]

       F                C
Let me dream of another morning
      F            C
And a time so long ago
         F               C
When the sweet magnolias blossomed
                       G7          
And the cotton fields....were white
    C
 as snow


[Verse]

        F                C
Catfish John was a river hobo
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             F                 C
He lived and died on the river bend
         F              C
Thinking back I still remember
             G7          C
I was proud....to be his friend


[Chorus]

C                  F
Mama said don't go near that river
C                                 
Don't be hanging around old 
  G7
Catfish John
C                        F
But come the morning I'd always be 
there
C                           G7   
Walking in his footsteps in sweet
       C
 delta dawn


[Verse]

       F                   
Born a slave in the town of 
 C
Vicksburg
       F              C
Traded for a chestnut mare
         F                     C
Still he never spoke a word in anger
                 G7            C
Though his load....was hard to bear


[Chorus]

C                  F
Mama said don't go near that river
C                                 
Don't be hanging around old 
  G7
Catfish John
C                        F
But come the morning I'd always be 
there
C                           G7   
Walking in his footsteps in sweet
       C
 delta dawn


[Otro]
                     F
Come the morning I'd always be there
C                           G7   
Walking in his footsteps in sweet
       C
 delta dawn