MIZZIZZIPPI WOMAN MIZZIZZIPPI MAN: is Frist Draft Lyrics Work: you can join in on it with these other worthy Songwriters/Musicians/Singers/Performers...it is Fun Work to Do, if you want to join in the singin'!....

#205 1001 Nights: Lyrics: Mizzizzipp​i Woman Mizzizzipp​i Man

Reply |Kathleen Everitt to wtaylor, Kevin
show details Nov 1

Kevin and Bill: Thought maybe you could look over this first draft,
and think about some music for it - Den's going to be workin on it
too - already I'm thinking of changing the last line of the chorus to either "so much what we could be" or "a lot like we could be"....you can throw it on your computers and work the lyrics too, if you like...this one may be our Flagship Number of our songs that we're plannin to sing going down the Mississippi....we're going to be doing a LOT of John Hartford's songs I do believe...and some Mississipi John Hurt maybe....the rest, I'm going to write, but will need music for....anyway, this is the first try....
hope you both can wrestle with it, in your 'free' (heeheehee) time....
By the by: Kevin, meet Bill Taylor, Master Banjo Smith, Bluegrass
Wonder, Guitar Man...Bill, meet Kevin Radley: Master of the Whole
Shabang in Music, tho Modest and Frank (sounds like a duet). you two
should befriend and so on...worth your whiles. and while. too.
Thanks,
Your Friend Kat


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From: Kathleen Everitt
Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Subject: #205 1001 Nights: Lyrics: Mizzizzippi Woman Mizzizzippi Man
To: Dennis Mccue


First Draft: this is a song for us: so you can work on it too, please!....


MIZZIZZIPPI WOMAN MIZZIZZIPPI MAN

Been hard-workin' People for a damn long time -
Just actin' lately like some boy and girl -
Sliddin' down the Mizzizzippi all haphazzard
In a phat wild whirl...
Really don't care to wonder why we're goin' -
Can't say we care where we've surely been:
But we're goin' down Big Muddy from the lake to that delta
And we're thinkin' this time we're gonna win!
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CHORUS:

This here River is runnin' both Wild and Tame
This River's tryin' to run Free:
This River's runnin' both with and without us:
This River is a lot like you and me....
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Been quite willfull ever since we could remember
Been in a lot of trouble sometime...
Made it good for our kids and did the best we could
Built it all with hardly a dime...
Our pockets ain't loaded but our hearts are full
And this River is a Home for me and you:
So Baby if you want to paddle right there with me
We'll take ourselves on down in this canoe....
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CHORUS
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The Mizzizzippi's rough and sometimes shallow
Sometimes this long channel's deep and wide:
There's Locks to open and ways to portage round-about
An Barges that can toss you upside...
We ain't scared cuz we're so much older now not
Even Big Man Death can have a say:
Cuz we're goin' to paddle through right into that Gulf
An nothin's gonna get in our way....
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