Black Water Doobie Brothers

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Well, I built me a raft and she’s ready for floatin’;

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Ol’ Mississippi, She’s callin’ my name.

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Catfish are jumpin’, that paddle wheel thumpin’,

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Black water keeps rollin’ on past just the same.

G Bb

Old black water, keep on rollin’ / Mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me?

Old black water, keep on rollin’/ Mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me?

G Bb A Em7

Old black water, keep on rollin’, / Mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me?

A Em7 A Em7

Yeah, keep on shinin’ your light, / Gonna make everything, pretty mama,

A Em7 D Am7 D Am7 A Em7

Gonna make everything all right. / And I ain’t got no worries, ‘cause I ain’t in no hurry at all.

D Am7 D Am7

Well, if it rains, I don’t care, don’t make no difference to me;

D Am7 D Am7

Just take that streetcar that’s goin’ uptown.

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Yeah, I’d like to hear some funky Dixieland and dance a honky tonk,

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And I’ll be buyin’ everybody drinks all ‘roun. Chorus

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I’d like to hear some funky Dixieland / Pretty mama come and take me by the hand, by the hand, hand

D Am7 D

Take my by the hand, pretty mamma, Gonna dance with you, baby, all night long. (Repeat and fade)