D  D  D  Cadd9  D  D  D  Cadd9  G/B
D  D  D  Cadd9  D  D  D  Cadd9  G/B

[Verse 1]
         D
I'm gonna take me a ride on a riverboat
                   Cadd9
Down in New Orleans
     D
Gotta pocket full o' money and a liquor bottle
     Cadd9   G/B   D
Gonna drink away my dreams
     D
Don't really want to leave
                Cadd9
Sure I can't stay
         D
I'm gonna get on that riverboat
   Cadd9     G/B    D
And gamble my life away

[Chorus]
        Cadd9
Makes me fly like an eagle
                       D
Higher and higher every day
      Cadd9
'Cause in my mind and in my dreams
                 D    Cadd9  D  Cadd9  G/B
I can't get her away

[Verse 2]
     D
Gonna sit down at that poker table
                       Cadd9
Five card stud's my game
     D
Gonna try and forget that crazy woman
     Cadd9      G/B     D
Gonna try and forget her name
       D
I don't know how I'll make it
                           Cadd9
But I'll forget her some way
    D
This is the time and the only time
   Cadd9       G/B   D
She ain't gonna get away

[Chorus]
            Cadd9
She makes me fly like an eagle
                       D
Higher and higher every day
      Cadd9
'Cause in my mind and in my dreams
                 D    Cadd9  D  Cadd9  G/B
I can't get her away

[Instrumental]
Cadd9  Cadd9  D  D  Cadd9  Cadd9  D  D
D  D  D  Cadd9  D  D  Cadd9  G/B  D
D  D  D  Cadd9  D  D  Cadd9  G/B  D

[Chorus]
                Cadd9
And she makes me fly like an eagle
                       D
Higher and higher every day
     Cadd9
She's in my mind and in my dreams
                 D    Cadd9
I can't get her away
               D
Can't get her away