Steamboat Bill-The Robert De Cormier Singers and Ensemble

[ti:Steamboat Bill] [ar:The Robert De Cormier Singers and Ensemble] [al:Oh! You Beautiful Doll - A Celebration of Tin Pan Alley] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Steamboat Bill - The Robert De Cormier Singers and Ensemble [00:08.98]Down the Mississippi came the Whippoorwill [00:12.51]Commanded by her captain [00:14.03]Mr Steamboat Bill [00:15.85] [00:16.36]Billy gave his orders on the strict QT [00:20.03]To try to beat the [00:21.25]Record of the Robert E Lee [00:23.97]Just speed up your fire [00:25.54]Let the old smoke roll [00:27.38] [00:27.95]Burn up all your cargo [00:29.42]If you run out of coal [00:31.69]If we don't beat that record [00:33.32]Billy told the mate [00:35.24]Then the Maiden Care'll beat us [00:37.67]To the Golden Gate [00:39.52]Steamboat Bill [00:41.11]Steaming down the Mississippi [00:43.59]Steamboat Bill [00:44.99]A mighty man was he [00:47.25]Steamboat Bill [00:48.64]Steaming down the Mississippi [00:51.13]Gonna beat the record of the Robert E Lee [00:54.64] [01:02.75]Up stepped a gambling [01:04.11]Man from Louisville [01:05.76] [01:06.29]Tried to get a bet [01:07.64]Against the Whippoorwill [01:10.18]Billy clasped the roll [01:11.53]And surely was some bear [01:13.44] [01:14.04]The boiler it exploded [01:15.60]Blew them up in the air [01:17.07] [01:17.78]The gambler said to Billy [01:19.56]As they left the wreck [01:21.46]I don't know where we're going [01:23.30]But we're neck and neck [01:25.35]Said Billy to the gambler [01:27.42]Tell you what I'll do [01:29.02]I'll bet another thous [01:30.42]And I'll go higher than you [01:32.57] [01:33.38]Steamboat Bill [01:34.80]He tore up the Mississippi [01:37.18]Steamboat Bill [01:38.64]The pilot made him swear [01:41.02]Steamboat Bill [01:42.60]He tore up the Mississippi [01:44.56]An explosion of the boiler [01:46.29]Put him up in the air [01:48.34] [01:59.73]The river's all in mourning [02:01.62]Now for Steamboat Bill [02:04.17] [02:04.88]No more you'll hear [02:06.34]The popping of the Whippoorwill [02:09.90] [02:10.55]There's crepe on every steamboat [02:13.70]That plows the stream [02:15.72] [02:16.43]From Memphis right to Natchez [02:18.71]Down to New Orleans [02:20.86] [02:21.84]The wife of Mister William [02:24.05]Was at home in bed [02:26.56] [02:27.52]When she got the telegram [02:29.82]That Steamboat's dead [02:32.33] [02:32.95]Said she to the children [02:35.93]Blessed Honey Lambs [02:39.63] [02:40.20]The next papa that [02:41.65]You have'll be a railroad man [02:44.63]Steamboat Bill [02:46.20]Missing 'long the Mississippi [02:48.24]Steamboat Bill is [02:50.55]With an angel band [02:52.14]Steamboat Bill [02:53.88]Missing 'long the Mississippi [02:55.84]He's a fireman on a ferry [02:57.58]In the Promised Land