Am7  D 
       
 
[Verso 1]
      
     D       Am7        D               Am7         D   
     Well, I built me a raft and she's ready for floatin'  
       
     Am7        D           Am7           D   
     ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name  
       
     Am7          D           Am7          D   
     Catfish are jumpin' that paddle wheel thumpin'  
       
     Am7            D           Am7         D  
     Black water keeps rollin' on past just the same  
       
       
   
[Refrão]
    
     G  
     Old black water, keep on rollin'     
       
     Bb                                            G   
     Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?  
                                                   Old black water,  
                                                   keep on rollin'  
       
     Bb                                            G   
     Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?  
                                                   Old black water,  
                                                   keep on rollin'  
       
     Bb                                            A  '  '  Em7   
     Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?  
       
                   A            Em7               A     Em7  
     Yeah, keep on shinin' your light, gonna make every thing  
       
                        A                 Em7  
     Pretty mama, gonna make everything all right  
       
           D            Am7              D           Am7      A     Em7  
     And I ain't got no worries 'cause I ain't in no hurry at all  
       
       
      
[Verso 2]
 
     D           Am7                D               Am7              D   
     Well, if it rains, I don't care, don't make no difference to me  
       
                    Am7               D            Am7   D  
     Just take that street car that's goin' up town        Yeah, I'd like to  
       
     Am7             D             Am7           D   
     hear some funky Dixieland and dance a honky tonk, and I'll be  
       
     Am7                    D        Am7      D   
     buyin' everybody drinks all roun'-------  
       
       
     CHORUS, followed by guitar/fiddle solos, then:  
       
       
     ENDING {1: with music, 2/3: a capella, then with music, repeat and fade}:  
       
       
     D           Am7             D                 Am7               
     I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland, pretty momma come and take me  
       
     D                     Am7                      D  
     by the hand,  by  the hand,     take me by the hand,  
                (I want to honky-tonk)       (honky-tonk)  
       
                            Am7                     D  
     pretty momma, come and dance with your daddy all night long, I'd like to...  
           (honky-tonk)                 (with you all night long)