Black Water chords by The Doobie Brothers

Chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Novice

Black Water:Doobie Brothers.
#1 in 1975.

#1.
D MajorD    Am7Am7    D MajorD       Am7Am7    D MajorD
Well, I built me a raft and she's ready for floatin'..
Am7Am7    D MajorD      Am7Am7    D MajorD
ole Mississippi, she's callin' my name.
Am7Am7     D MajorD      Am7Am7     D MajorD
Catfish are jumpin', that paddle-wheel thumpin'..
Am7Am7        D MajorD     Am7Am7      D MajorD
black water keeps rollin' on past just the same.

CHORUS:
G+G
Old black water, keep on rollin'..
Bb majorBb
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin'.
G+G
Old black water, keep on rollin'..
Bb majorBb
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin'..
G+G
Old black water, keep on rollin'..
Bb majorBb                      A augmentedA  E minor 7Em7
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?

A augmentedA       E minor 7Em7      A augmentedA        E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA
Yeah, keep on shinin' your light, gonna make everything,
          A augmentedA          E minor 7Em7
pretty mama, gonna make everything all right.
   D MajorD      Am7Am7       D MajorD      Am7Am7    A augmentedA E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA
And I ain't got no worries 'cause I ain't in no hurry..at all.

(INTERLUDE:)

#2.
D MajorD      Am7Am7      D MajorD          Am7Am7      D MajorD
Well, if it rains, I don't care, don't make no difference to me.
        Am7Am7        D MajorD    Am7Am7
Just take that street car that's goin' up town..
         Am7Am7       D MajorD       Am7Am7      D MajorD
Yeah, I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland and dance a honky-tonk..
      Am7Am7       D MajorD     Am7Am7  D MajorD
and I'll be buyin' everybody drinks all round.

CHORUS:
G+G
Old black water, keep on rollin'..
Bb majorBb
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin'.
G+G
Old black water, keep on rollin'..
Bb majorBb
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin'..
G+G
Old black water, keep on rollin'..
Bb majorBb                      A augmentedA  E minor 7Em7
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?

A augmentedA       E minor 7Em7      A augmentedA        E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA
Yeah, keep on shinin' your light, gonna make everything,
         A augmentedA          E minor 7Em7
everything, gonna make everything all right.
   D MajorD      Am7Am7       D MajorD      Am7Am7    A augmentedA E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA
And I ain't got no worries 'cause I ain't in no hurry..at all.

(INTERLUDE:)

OUTRO:
D MajorD      Am7Am7       D MajorD         Am7Am7
I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland, pretty momma come and take me
D MajorD
by the hand..
    Am7Am7         D MajorD
By the hand, take me by the hand, pretty momma..
     Am7Am7          D MajorD
come and dance with your daddy, all night long.

(A augmentedA Cappella)
I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland, pretty momma come and take me

by the hand..

By the hand, take me by the hand, pretty momma..

come and dance with your daddy, all night long.

D MajorD      Am7Am7       D MajorD         Am7Am7
I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland, pretty momma come and take me
D MajorD
by the hand..
    Am7Am7         D MajorD
By the hand, take me by the hand, pretty momma..
     Am7Am7          D MajorD
come and dance with your daddy, all night long.

D MajorD      Am7Am7       D MajorD         Am7Am7
I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland, pretty momma come and take me
D MajorD
by the hand..
    Am7Am7         D MajorD
By the hand, take me by the hand, pretty momma..
     Am7Am7          D MajorD
come and dance with your daddy, all night long. (Fade.)

A augmentedA seventies smash from Kraziekhat.

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