Big Boat Up The River Lyrics - Harry Belafonte

Big boat on the river hauling seven ton 

Coming up from Natchez on the Memphis run 

Paddle wheel a slipping and the keel done cracked 

Mean old Mississippi trying to hold me back 

Won't somebody tell my woman 

Won't somebody tell my woman 

Won't somebody tell my woman 

Big Boat Up The River and it won't come down 

Big Boat Up The River and it won't come down 

Big Boat Up The River and it won't come down 

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Captain told the stokers well pack her tight 

Got to get to Memphis by tomorrow night 

Coming up the delta well the fathom set 

Captain, Lord, Captain tell me where I at 

Big boat a comin' in the pitch black night 

That Mississippi fog that hits the pilot's light 

Gauging, Mr gauger what's that rumblin' sound 

Sandbank dead ahead and we done run on ground 

My woman say she loves me and I know it's true 

But I've done done something that you just don't do 

Stayed from home too long and now I see 

Some Natchez man is tryin' to take my gal from me 

He's messing around with my woman 

Messing around with my woman 

He's messing around with my woman 

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When I go off this I'm gonna stay on land 

Gonna take my little woman well a by the hand 

Build me a cabin on a high old hill 

Get me a rocking-chair and sit right still 

But on some quiet night when the wind done rift 

The sounds from the river will begin to drift 

Some lonely rambler with a tearful eye 

Will touch my heart with his mournful cry