Here we all work on the

Mississippi

Here we all work while the rich boys play

Getting no rest from the dawn till sunset

Getting no rest till the judgment day

You don't look up you don't look down

You don't dare make the rich boss frown

Bend your knees and bow your heads

And tote that barge until you're dead

Let me go away from the

Mississippi

Show me that stream called the river of

JordanThat's the old stream that

I long to cross

Ol' Man River that

Ol' Man River

He don't say nothing but he must know something

Ol' Man River he just keeps rolling along

He don't plant taters and he don't plant cotton

And then that planters are soon forgotten

But Ol' Man

River he just keeps rolling along

You know you and me sometimes we have to we have to sweat

Sweat and strain our bodies all aching and wrecked with pain

Tote that barge lift that bale get a little drunk

And you land you gotta land yes you land in jail

I get weary oh

Lord and so sick of trying

I'm tired of living and 'fraid of dying

But Ol' Man

River he just keeps rolling a

Ol' Man River he just keeps rolling along