Well I spent the better part of my life on a Mississippi riverboat
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I used to be known from coast to coast as the slickest gambler afloat
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I've dealt the cards from Minnesota to the harbor in New Orleans
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I made a lotta big money on the riverboat I loved a lotta pretty riverboat queens
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Riverboat riverboat I love your whistle's wail
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I wish I was back on the riverboart stead of in the Memphis jail
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[ banjo ]
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Oh a big man got on the riverboat our last time in St Paul
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He had a lotta money but his luck went bad and the riverboat won it all
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He said I dealt from the bottom of the deck and he pulled a shiny knife
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But before that gambler lunged at me my 44 took his life
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Riverboat riverboat...
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[ banjo ]
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Well they came on the boat and they took me to jail when we got to Tennessee
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A gamblin' man has very few friends guess nobody cared for me
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So I might be here for a many long years but if I ever get out
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I'm gonna head straight for that levee and get me
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S riverboat headin' south
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Riverboat riverboat...
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Stead of in the Memphis jail
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Riverboat
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| Faron Young |
