{"id":10292,"date":"2022-06-04T23:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T23:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=10292"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:31:54","slug":"catfish-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/catfish-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Catfish John"},"content":{"rendered":"
D Catfish John, Alison Kraus <\/span>\r\n\r\n- - - - - { CHORUS } - - - - [A] Mama said don't go [D] near that river. [A] Don't be hanging around old Catfish [E7] John. [A] But come the morning I'd [D] always be there, [A] walking in his footsteps in the [E7] sweet delta [A] dawn\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n [Verse 1] - - - - <\/span><\/span>Born a [D] slave, in the town of [A] Vicksburg;  Traded [D] for, a chestnut [A] mare.   Lord he [D] never, spoke a word in [A] anger, though his [A] load, [E7] was hard to [A] bear<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n- - - - - { CHORUS } - - - -<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n[Verse 2] - - - - <\/span><\/span>Catfish [D] John was a river [A] hobo.  He lived and [D] died, by the rivers [A] bend.  Looking [D] back, I still [A] remember,  I was [A] proud, [E7] to be his [A] friend<\/span> <\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n- - - - - { CHORUS } - - - - [A] Mama said don't go [D] near that river. [A] Don't be hanging around old Catfish [E7] John. [A] But come the morning I'd [D] always be there, [A] walking in his footsteps in the [E7] sweet delta [A] dawn<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n[Verse 3] - - - - <\/span><\/span>Take me [D] back, to another [A] moment.   To a [D] time, so long [A] ago.   When the [D] sweet, magnolias [A] blossomed, the cotton [A] fields, [E7] were white as [A] snow<\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n- - - - - { CHORUS } - - - -<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n[ WRAP ] - - - - - Catfish [D] John was a river [A] hobo. He lived and [D] died, by the rivers [A] bend. Looking [D] back, I still [A] remember, I was [A] proud, [E7] to be his [A] friend. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
D Catfish John, Alison Kraus – – – – – { CHORUS } – – – – [A] Mama said don’t go [D] near that river. [A] Don’t be hanging around old Catfish [E7] John. [A] But come the morning I’d [D] always be there, [A] walking in his footsteps … CLICK TO VIEW SONGCatfish John<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,95,133,126,13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alison-kraus","category-animals","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27546,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10292\/revisions\/27546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}