Riverboat

Riverboat - Faron Young

Well I spent the better part of my life on a Mississippi riverboat

I used to be known from coast to coast as the slickest gambler afloat

I've dealt the cards from Minnesota to the harbor in new Orleans

I made a lotta big money on the riverboat

I loved a lotta pretty riverboat queens

Riverboat riverboat I love your whistle's wail

I wish I was back on the riverboart stead of in the Memphis jail

Oh a big man got on the riverboat our last time in St Paul

He had a lotta money

But his luck went bad and the riverboat won it all

He said I dealt from the bottom of the deck

And he pulled a shiny knife

But before that gambler lunged at me my 44 took his life

Riverboat riverboat

I love your whistle's wail

I wish I was back on the riverboart stead of in the Memphis jail

Well they came on the boat

And they took me to jail when we got totennessee

A gambling man