Here we all work 'long the Mississippi
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Here we all work while the white folk play
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Pullin' them boats
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From the dawn till sunset
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Gettin' no rest till the judgment day
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Don't look up and don't look down
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You
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Don't das make the boss man frown
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Bend your knees and bow your head
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And pull that rope until your
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Dead
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Let me go 'way from the Mississippi
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Let me go 'way from the white man boss
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Show me that stream
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Called the River Jordan
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That's the old stream that I long to cross.
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Ol' Man River, that Ol' Man River
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He don't say nothin', but he must know somethin'
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He just keeps rollin', he keeps on rollin' along
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He
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Don't plant tatters, and he don't plant cotton
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And them what plants em, are soon forgotten
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But Ol'
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Man River, just keeps rollin' along
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You and me, we sweat and strain
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Body all achin' and racked with
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Pain
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Tote that barge and lift that bail
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You get a little drunk and you lands in jail
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I gets weary,
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And sick of trying
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I'm tired of livin', but I'm scared of dyin'
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But Ol' Man River, he just keeps
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Ol' Man River
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Ray Charles |