C
F
Mama said don’t go near that river
C
G7
Don’t be hanging around old Catfish John
C
F
But come the morning I’d always be there
C
G7
C
Walking in his footsteps in sweet delta dawn
F
C
Let me dream of another morning
F
C
And a time so long ago
F
C
When the sweet magnolias blossomed
G7
C
And the cotton fields were white as snow
F
C
Catfish John was a river hobo
F
C
He lived and died on the river bend
F
C
Thinking back I still remember
G7
C
I was proud to be his friend
C
F
Mama said don’t go near that river
C
G7
Don’t be hanging around old Catfish John
C
F
But come the morning I’d always be there
C
G7
C
Walking in his footsteps in sweet delta dawn
F
C
Born a slave in the town of Vicksburg
F
C
Traded for a chestnut mare
F
C
Still he never spoke a in anger
G7
C
Though his load was hard to bear
C
F
Mama said don’t go near that river
C
G7
Don’t be hanging around old Catfish John
C
F
But come the morning I’d always be there
C
G7
C
Walking in his footsteps in sweet delta dawn
F
Come the morning I’d always be there
C
G7
C
Walking in his footsteps in sweet delta dawn
F
C
G7
