Mr & Mississippi

Chorus

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I can’t recall my mother.

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I don’t remember Dad.

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Mister and Mississippi

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was all I ever had.

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Oh, I was born to wander,

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I was born to roam;

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And Mister and Mississippi made me feel at home.

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My cradle was the river, my school a riverboat.

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My teacher was a gambler, the slickest one afloat.

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My teacher was a gambler, the slickest one afloat.

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He taught me not to gamble on a petticoat.

repeat tabs above
Oh, I was born to wander, I was born to roam
And Mister and Mississippi made me feel at home.

Verses

Oh, darling How I love you, what more is there to say.
I love you like a barefoot girl loves a summer day.
The way a wandering gypsy loves the changing sea–
Just like the restless river loves old New Orleans.

chorus

I love a tiny village, a quite country town.
A house, a little garden, with kiddies running ’round.
You’d be a faithful husband, I’d be a faithful friend
Until I heard that old steamboat coming ’round the bend.

chorus