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

Yeah yeah

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 to Tennessee

A gamblin' man has very few friends

Guess nobody cared for me

So I might be here for a many long years

But if I ever get out

I'm gonna head straight for

That levee and get me

A riverboat headin' south

Riverboat riverboat

I love your whistle's wail

I wish I was back on the riverboat

Stead of in the Memphis jail

Stead of in the Memphis jail