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Big River

Johnny Cash

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Big River:Johnny Cash.
#14 on the Pop Charts in 1958.

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#1.
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Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry.
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And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
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And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna
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flood you Big River.
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Then I'm gonna sit right here until I die.

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I met her accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota.
                                         B
And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl, Southern drawl.
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Then I heard my dream was back downstream, cav..ortin' in Davenport,
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and I followed you, Big River, when you called.

(INTERLUDE:)

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#3.
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Then you took me to St. Louis, later on down the river.
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A freighter said she's been here but she's gone, boy, she's gone.
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I found her trail in Memphis, but she just walked up the block.
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She raised a few eyebrows and then she went on down alone.

#4.
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Now, won't you batten down by Baton Rouge, River Queen, roll it on.
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Take that woman on down to New Orleans, New Orleans.
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Go on, I've had enough..dump my blues down in the Gulf.
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She loves you, Big River, more than me.


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Big River

Johnny Cash