Skippin' in the Mississippi Dew

Oh I dreamed of a girl in a stern wheel steamboat
A pilot house stove and an engine of brass
A hangin on thepost by the main deck stair
With a blue dress skippin in the Mississippi dew

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Oh the river runs wide, run deeper, run muddy
River run long after I am gone
With a steam boat a wheelin on the big wide bend
Just a skippin in the Mississippi dew

Well I ran up the river come away last Sunday
Ten feet of water on the Memphis gage
Couldn't gest home I got the muddy rollin
and a paddle wheel
Skippin 'cross the Mississippi dew

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Well it used to be spring I'd ship on the river
35 days on the Bally line road
I'd make a little mony get a swing time chicken
Take off a skippin down the Mississippi dew

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