The First Showboat

Yeah take you back in time a bit

You know a mile around the bend on the

Ohio Comin up the river for the

Sunday show

There's a tuba and a banjo and a steam calliope

Way in the back there's a big paddlewheel

Oh yeah! What a thrill it must have been playin'

Dixie for the folks

Up and down the river on the first showboat

What a thrill it must have been playin'

Dixie for the folks

Up and down the river on the first showboat

Yeah well

Momma took the kids,

Pomma took the lunch

The gents took the belles and the whiskey took the drunks

But the biggest thrill of all, you know it had to be

Was sittin' up front playin steam calliope

What a thrill it must have been playin'

Dixie for the folks

Up and down the river on the first showboat

What a thrill it must have been playin'

Dixie for the folks

Up and down the river on the first showboat

Yeah there's magic in the air, riddle in the rhymes

It's slow and easy in the summertime

Yeah but who'd a ever thought the day would come to be

When there's oil on the water where clear rivers used to be

What a thrill it must have been playin'

Dixie for the folks

Up and down the river on the first showboat

What a thrill it must have been playin'

Dixie for the folks

Up and down the river on the first showboat

Yeah a mile around the bend on the

Ohio Comin up the river for the

Sunday show

What a thrill it must have been playin'

Dixie for the folks

Up and down the river on the first showboat ....