Mississippi Guitar Man

Well I'm a Mississippi River Boat musical man
Hard on the cash and a guitar in my hand
"You better jump over board" said the captain in swivet
"Can't ride the river if you aint got a ticket"
"Captain" I says "wait till you hear me sing"
Captain said "son that won't change a damn thing"

I don't know how to swim I don't know how to float
So the captain said "boy you want to stay on this boat"
The engine got a steam powered thing a ma jiggy
It's throwing out oil all over the brig
Now if you can get that riverboat oil to flow
You can sleep in the engine room down below"

With your Mississippi Guitar
Guitar Man

"If you can get that riverboat oil to flow
You can sleep in the engine room down below"

I ain't never been called no steam engine Micky
But I don't intend to die underneath the Mississippi
So I said "Yeah I'll fix it with a guitar string"
The captain said "son you can teach it to sing
Get this boat a rollin down the Mississippi nice
Or you gon' use that old guitar as a floating device"

"Get that boat a rollin down the Mississippi nice
Or you gon' use that old guitar as a floating device"

See up on the deck there was a gamblin' hall
Rough necks and red necks and city folks all
And there I were in the belly of the whale
Oil up to my ankles thinking what the hell
Well I lit up a cigarette thinking to start
But there's a thin white line between stupid and smart

In a matter of a second it was all she wrote
Mississippi River had a gamblin' boat
Burning and blazing like the fires of sin
Roughnecks and rednecks jumping on in
Son I got away singing and a strumming
On a Mississippi River keeping all that money

With my Mississippi Guitar
Guitar Man
But Son I got away just a singing and a strumming
On a Mississippi River keeping all that money