Steamboat Bill-Bradley Kincaid

[ti:Steamboat Bill] [ar:Bradley Kincaid] [al:Mountain Ballads & Old Time Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Steamboat Bill - Bradley Kincaid [00:03.37]Down the Mississippi came the Whippoorwill [00:05.99]Commanded by her captain [00:07.20]Mr Steamboat Bill [00:08.77]Billy gave his orders on the strict QT [00:11.37]He was trying to beat the [00:12.47]Record of the Robert E Lee [00:13.91] [00:14.71]Just speed up your fire [00:15.93]Let the old smoke roll [00:17.60]Burn up all your cargo [00:18.71]If you run out of coal [00:20.34]"If we don't beat that record " [00:21.41]Billy told the mate [00:22.73]"Then the Maiden Care'll beat us [00:24.30]To the Golden Gate " [00:25.80] [00:26.73]Steamboat Bill [00:27.65] [00:28.41]Steaming down the Mississippi [00:30.04] [00:30.66]Steamboat Bill [00:31.76] [00:32.46]A mighty man was he [00:33.93] [00:34.67]Steamboat Bill [00:35.75] [00:36.36]Steaming down the Mississippi [00:37.45] [00:38.04]Gonna beat the record of the Robert E Lee [00:40.92] [00:42.50]Up then stepped a gambling [00:43.60]Man from Louisville [00:45.12] [00:45.63]Who tried to get a bet [00:46.66]Against the Whippoorwill [00:47.92] [00:48.44]Billy clasped the roll [00:49.48]And surely was some bear [00:51.06]The boiler it exploded [00:52.28]Blew them up in the air [00:53.44] [00:54.44]The gambler said to Billy [00:55.55]As they left the wreck [00:57.35]"I don't know where we're going [00:58.33]But we're neck and neck " [00:59.83]Said Billy to the gambler " [01:01.01]Tell you what I'll do; [01:02.43]I'll bet another thous [01:03.59]And I'll go higher than you " [01:05.06] [01:06.06]Steamboat Bill [01:07.01] [01:07.56]He tore up the Mississippi [01:08.89] [01:09.65]Steamboat Bill [01:10.75] [01:11.49]The pilot made him swear [01:13.02] [01:13.67]Steamboat Bill [01:15.29]He tore up the Mississippi [01:16.96]An explosion of the boiler [01:17.83]Put him up in the air [01:19.20] [01:21.58]The river's all in mourning [01:22.63]Now for Steamboat Bill [01:24.32]No more you'll hear [01:25.21]The popping of the Whippoorwill [01:27.20]There's crepe on every steamboat [01:29.09]That plows the stream [01:30.73]From Memphis right to Natchez [01:32.23]Down to New Orleans [01:34.00] [01:34.84]The wife of Mister William [01:35.98]Was at home in bed [01:37.83]When she got the telegram [01:39.18]That Steamboat's dead [01:40.68]Said she to the children [01:41.64]"Blessed Honey Lambs [01:43.32]The next papa that [01:44.28]You have'll be a railroad man " [01:46.30] [01:47.30]Steamboat Bill [01:48.32] [01:48.91]Missing 'long the Mississippi [01:50.34] [01:50.96]Steamboat Bill is [01:53.26]With an angel band [01:54.40] [01:55.27]Steamboat Bill [01:56.37] [01:57.08]Missing 'long the Mississippi [01:58.72]He's a fireman on a ferry [02:00.58]In the Promised Land