The First Showboat chords by Jerry Jeff Walker

Chords with lyrics

Verse:
 G+G
You know a mile around the bend on the Ohio
 FF              C majorC G+G  C majorC
Coming up the river for the Sunday show
      G+G
There's a tuba and a banjo and a steam calliope
 FF             C majorC  G+G   C majorC
Way in the back there's a big paddle wheel

Chorus:
     G+G              C majorC
What a thrill it musta been, playing Dixie for the folks
D MajorD               C majorC    G+G
Up and down the river on the first showboat
                    C majorC
What a thrill it musta been, playing Dixie for the folks
D MajorD               C majorC    G+G
Up and down the river on the first showboat

Verse:
 G+G
Momma took the kids and papa took the lunch
 FF                C majorC    G+G    C majorC
The kids took the bells and the whiskey took the drunks
 G+G
But the biggest thrill of all, you know it had to be
 FF                C majorC G+G   C majorC
Was sitting up front playing steam calliope

Chorus:
 G+G
Well there's magic in the air, they're fiddlin the rhymes
 FF            C majorC  G+G C majorC
It's slow and easy in the summertime
 G+G
Yeah, but who'd of ever thought, the day would come to be
 FF                    C majorC   G+G    C majorC
Where there's oil on the waters where the rivers used to be

Chorus:
 G+G
Yeah a mile around the bend on the Ohio
 FF             C majorC  G+G C majorC
Coming up the river for the Sunday show

Chorus:
N.C.
If you want to play along with the "Dixieland" theme as on Night After Night, the chords are