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Walking along whistling a song bare foot and fancy free

 A big riverboat passing us by she’s headed for New Orleans

 There she goes disappearing around the bend

 Roll on Mississippi you make me feel like a child again

A cool river breeze like peppermint leaves

 The taste of it takes me back chewing on a straw torn overalls

 I can’t hold an old straw hat muddy river just like a long lost friend

 Roll on Mississippi you make me feel like a child again

Roll on Mississippi big river roll

 You’re the childhood dream that I grew upon

 Roll on Mississippi carry me h-ome

 Now I can see I’ve been away too long

 Roll on Mississippi roll on

Now when the world's spinning round too fast for me

 And I need a place to dream so I come to your banks

 I sit in your shade relive the memories Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

 Roll on Mississippi you make me feel like a child again

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