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Showboat coming up the river

 See her lanterns flicker in the gentle breeze

I can hear the crickets singing in the evening

 Old Dixie Lily moving past the cypress trees

My little boat she rocks easy

 I've been catching catfish in the creek all day

 Oh and I've never seen ladies like those on the big boats

 Must be fancy breeding lets you live that way

Dixie Lily, chugging like a grand old lady

 Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun

 Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing

 Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run

Papa says that I'm a dreamer

 Says them skeetas bit me one too many times

 Oh but I never get lonesome living on the river

 Watching old Lily leave the world behind

Dixie Lily, chugging like a grand old lady

 Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun

 Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing

 Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run

 Oooh, Dixie Lily, chugging like a grand old lady

 Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun

 Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing

 Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run, oooh

 Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run

By: Cristiano Tulio