E
(Riff on the E chord while Katz and Sweeney come in with Piano and Lead)


[Verse 1]
                              G#m        A
Gonna hop a freight train and take it on down
 E                                  B   A
Take along my best suit of clothes
E                   G#m A
Get on down to some Ohio River town
B            A       E
Sail on down to Cabo


[Verse 2]
                          G#m    A
Mississippi Steamboat I'm headed your way
E                                   B   A
Gonna walk your plank on the shore
 E                     G#m          A
Sit myself down by the nearest deck of cards
 B         A
On a lordy river of gold


[Transition Jam/Runthrough]

E     F#m
G#m   A
B     A


[Verse 3]

 E                            G# A
Sittin' in the back room with my grandpa
 E                    B  A
When I was only a boy
 E                               G#m        A
He's tellin' stories and playin' cards 'til dawn
B        A                 E   A
Ol' Mississippi Steamboat


[Verse 4]

 E                        G#m  A
Took me two years just to save enough
 E                         B  A
To bankroll my big chance
 E                              G#m   A
Hopin' by the time that I reach New Orleans
 B             A            E
That I'll be a wealthy man
F#m          G#m  A
Live while I can, yeah


[Transition 2]

B   A
E   C#m
B   A
F#m


[Verse 5]

E                   G#m        A
 I sat down, I got settled for the game
E                              B   A
 Watched the other's cold stare
E                      G#m   A
 My first night on the River Queen
B                A                E   A
 And all I could find was a pair
E                     G#m      A
 Woke up the next day half way broke
E                          B   A
I took a stop in Tennessee
E                       G#m    A
 Down on Beale Street I had the blues
      B                A
But a Memphis girl was good to me

E     F#m
G#m   A
B     A
E

[Katz jumps in with a saucy piano melody]

G#   A
E
B    A
E
G#m  A
B    A
E    A
E
G#m  A
E
B    A
E
G#m  A
B    A
E    F#m
G#m  A
B    A
E

[Sweeney comes in right before the A for some spicy lead]

A
E
B   A
E
Em  A
B   A
E
A
E
B   A
E
A
B   A
E   F#m
G#m A
B   A
E   C#m
B   A
F#m
E


[Bring it on home Verse 6]

                   G#m     A
Sit down again the following night
E                           B   A
 Suited up and ready to play
E                               G#    A
 Hopin' that the cards would be on my side
B           A            E   A
 I had only one more day
E                    G#m    A
 Took a while, but I evened it up
E                              B   A
 Lady Lucky was holdin' my hand
E                                  G#m      A
 And you know boy, by the time the sun came up,
B        A          E
 I was a wealthy man
F#m           G#m A
Live while I can, yeah

B   A
E   C#m
B   A
F#m
E