Yeah a mile around the bend down the Ohio    Comin up the river for the Sunday show    There's a tuba and a banjo and a steam calliope    Sittin on the deck of the big paddlewheel    What a thrill it must have been play in Dixie for the folks    Up and down the river on the first showboat    What a thrill it must have been play in Dixie for the folks    Up and down the river on the first showboat       Yeah well poppa took the kids, momma took the lunch    The gents took the belles and the whiskey took the drunks    But the biggest thrill of all you know it had to be    Way up front playin steam calliope       What a thrill it must have been play in Dixie for the folks    Up and down the river on the first showboat    What a thrill it must have been playin Dixie for the folks    Up and down the river on the first showboat       Yeah there's magic in the air riddle in the rhymes    Slow and easy in the summertime    Yeah an who'd a ever thought it could come to be    That Jim Crows flyin where the eagle ought to be