Mississippi Delta Queen Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]Ski[F]p[C][G][D]
[G]per said,
I'll [D]race you to the levee
Gonna [F]beat you down to
[C]New
Orleans
[G]He said,
I've got a pad[D]dler wheeler
That'll beat the
[F]Mississippi
[C]Delta
[G]Queen
Bayou people gonna [D]line up on the river
Gonna [F]come from [C]miles to [G]see
The fastest boat on the [D]mighty
Mississippi, my [F]good ship
[C]Robert
E.
Lee
[G]Captain sai[Em]d, uh [G]-uh,
[Gm]there [F]ain't nothin' faster from
[C]Memphis to
New
Orleans
[G]He said, uh -uh,
there [F]ain't a finer lady than the
[C]Mississippi
Delph
[G]Queen[D][F][C]
[G]
Skipper said, we'll start [D]from
St.
Louis.
Cap[F]tain said, [C]fine with [G]me.
Skipper said, it'll all [D]be over
before [F]we reach
[C]Tennessee.[G]
But one mile out on that [D]foggy,
foggy morning,
he [F]looked toward
New
[C]Orl[G]eans.
And way up front was the
paddle [D]wheel
churning on the
[F]Mississippi
[C]Delta
[G]Queen.[D][F][C]
[G]
Two miles south of
[D]Natchez,
Mississippi, the [F]robber
Lee [C]ran [G]aground, skipper said I'll
have [D]to go with her if the [F]robber
Lee [C]goes [G]down, now the
Missis[Em]sippi
River ain't no [C]place
to be on a [D]cold and [C]foggy [Em]morn
But above all the screaming
and the [C]cries of doom
came the [D]sound of a paddle
wheel [C]horn
[Em]Someone [G]cried, look up to [D]the
Mississippi
I [F]think I see the [C]crown of a [G]queen
I do believe we'll [D]all be saved by
the
[F]Mississippi
[C]Delta
[G]Queen
Skipper said, uh -huh
Look [F]up the
Mississippi, [C]finest sight I've [Em]ever seen
[G]He said, uh -huh,
there [F]ain't a finer lady than the
[C]Mississippi
Desert
[G]Queen[D][F][C]
[G]
The captain brought the
Queen [D]behind
Robin and [F]pushed him into
New
[C]Orleans
[G]The people cheered the first one[D] to the levee,
the [F]good ship
[C]Robert
E.
[G]Lee
The mayors said it looked [D]like the
winner of the [F]race is the
[C]Robert
E.
Lee
[G]But the skipper cried, hold [D]on,
the real winner is the
[F]Mississippi
[C]Delta
[G]Queen
He said, I'd like to steal her cause there
[D]ain't a paddle wheeler like the
[F]Mississippi
[C]Delta
Queen
[G]Yeah.

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