The First Showboat - Billy Callery
    Yeah a mile around the bend down the Ohio
    Comin up the river for the Sunday show
    There's a tuba and a banjo and a steam calliope
    Sittin on the deck of the big paddlewheel

    What a thrill it must have been play in Dixie for the folks
    Up and down the river on the first showboat
    What a thrill it must have been play in Dixie for the folks
    Up and down the river on the first showboat

    Yeah well poppa took the kids, momma took the lunch
    The gents took the belles and the whiskey took the drunks
    But the biggest thrill of all you know it had to be
    Way up front playin steam calliope

    What a thrill it must have been play in Dixie for the folks
    Up and down the river on the first showboat
    What a thrill it must have been playin Dixie for the folks
    Up and down the river on the first showboat

    Yeah there's magic in the air riddle in the rhymes
    Slow and easy in the summertime
    Yeah an who'd a ever thought it could come to be
    That Jim Crows flyin where the eagle ought to be.

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