Mississippi River Runnin Backwards

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Old man river, that old man river
   Bm         Am       G
He just keeps rolling along

[Verse]
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Mississippi River runnin' backwards
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Earthquakes shook the land
   D
It happened down here in 1912
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It's happening here again

[Verse]
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Feast and famine, ya'll, fire and flood
     Am
Abominations, you understand
      D
Don't need no Old Testament prophet to tell me
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We ain't living in the Promised Land

[Chorus]
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Everybody sing, blow Gabriel blow
      Am
Yeah, blow that ragtime jazz
Bm                           Em
Judgement day is coming down here, y'all
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In the land of the razzmatazz

[Verse]
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I saw carpet-sweepers and microwave ovens
      Am
I saw busted-out television screens
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Empty of TV evangelist cats
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With their hair all slicked up with Brylcreem

[Verse]
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Now the gospel news, to you real bad news
             Am
No need to invent all that doom and gloom
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It's a one-legged race to the liquor store
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It's a hop, skip and jump into the tomb

[Chorus]
G
Everybody sing, blow Gabriel blow
      Am
Yeah, blow that ragtime jazz
Bm                           Em
Judgement day is coming down here, y'all
       F           C     G
In the land of the razzmatazz

[Bridge]
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Steamboat whistles blowing underwater
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Everything is backwards and upside down
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Baby Moses in the bulrushes
         D
Paddling sideways to higher ground

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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Old ladies gambling inside riverboat casinos
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Whirlpools swallowed 'em down
  D
Insurance executives and Fuller Brush salesmen
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Bushwhacked trying to leave town

[Verse]
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But their lifeboats went backwards up the Mississippi River
       Am
To the ancient Missouri sod
      D
Up to Iowa and Minnesota
         C                    G
Into the hands of a righteous god

[Chorus]
G
Everybody sing, blow Gabriel blow
      Am
Yeah, blow that ragtime jazz
Bm                           Em
Judgement day is coming down here, y'all
       F           C     G
In the land of the razzmatazz

[Chorus]
G
Everybody sing, blow Gabriel blow
      Am
Yeah, blow that ragtime jazz
Bm                           Em
Judgement day is coming down here, y'all
       F           C     G
In the land of the razzmatazz
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In the land of the razzmatazz
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In the land of the razzmatazz
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In the land of the razzmatazz