Sailin' Away on the Henry Clay

Sailin' Away on the Henry Clay - American Quartet/The Peerless Quartet

Down where the cane and the cotton am growing

Down where the old Mississippi is flowing

Good times sure am waiting for me

That's where I am longing to be this evening

Dressed in their best all the folks congregating

Down on the levee you'll find them a-waiting

Waiting for that old Henry Clay

To be sailing away down the bay

Old Henry Clay Sailing away sailing away

Sailing in the moonlight on the Henry Clay

Just hear that barber shop quartet a-harmonizing

While that coon bands is improvising

Sliding along gliding along

Dancing till the break of day

Upon that upper deck

Just see those darkies spoon

Hug and kissing beneath the Dixie moon

Oh boy oceans of joy

When you're sailing on the Henry Clay

I'm tired of living up north and a-freting

I'm saving up all the tips I've been getting

No more snow a-blowing on me

I'm going south to my Tenessee down yonder

You'll see that old B and O in a minute

Just watch that smoker and you'll find me in it

You can bet a week from today

I'll be right on that old Henry Clay

Old Henry Clay Sailing away sailing away

Sailing in the moonlight on the Henry Clay

Just hear that barber shop quartet a-harmonizing

While that coon bands is improvising

Sliding along gliding along

Dancing till the break of day

Upon that upper deck

Just see those darkies spoon

Hug and kissing beneath the Dixie moon

Oh boy oceans of joy

When you're sailing on the Henry Clay