The First Showboat

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You know a mile around the bend on 
the Ohio
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Coming up the river for the 
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Sunday show
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There's a tuba and a banjo and a 
steam calliope
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Way in the back there's a big 
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paddle wheel

[Chorus]
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What a thrill it musta been, 
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playing Dixie for the folks
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Up and down the river on the 
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first showboat
What a thrill it musta been, playing
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 Dixie for the folks
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Up and down the river on the 
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first showboat

[Verse]
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Momma took the kids and papa took 
the lunch
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The kids took the bells and the 
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whiskey took the drunks
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But the biggest thrill of all, you 
know it had to be
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Was sitting up front playing steam 
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calliope

[Chorus]
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Well there's magic in the air, 
they're fiddlin the rhymes
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It's slow and easy in the summertime
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Yeah, but who'd of ever thought, the
 day would come to be
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Where there's oil on the waters 
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where the rivers used to be

[Chorus]
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Yeah a mile around the bend on the 
Ohio
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Coming up the river for the Sunday 
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show