{"id":24582,"date":"2025-06-27T22:09:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=24582"},"modified":"2025-12-13T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:07:33","slug":"mighty-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/mighty-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"

[C7] – LISTEN ON YOUTUBE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS – WITH BASS WALK]<\/span>
\n[C] Mighty Mississippi, roll [G] a-long,<\/span>\u00a0 – – – – [C] Lazy river, sing your [G] song, – – – –\u00a0<\/span>And it’s [G] away, [B7] Dixie, [C7] steady as you [A7] go – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[G] On your way down to the [D7] Gulf of [G] Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse 1]<\/span>
\n[C] Oh! ol’ man river keeps on callin’ [G] me – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[C] Guess there ain’t no place on earth I’d rather [G] be – – – –\u00a0<\/span>Well it’s [G] Greenville, [B7] Vicksburg and [C7] Natchez down the [A7] line – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[G] It’s fare-thee-well ol’ [D7] Memphis, [G] Tennessee.<\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS – WITH BASS WALK]<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse 2]<\/span>
\n[C] Well, I used to ride aboard that River [G] Queen – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[C] It was many a game of fortune I have [G] seen. – – – –\u00a0<\/span>Oh, [G] once I lost a [B7] million but I [C7] won it back [A7] again <\/span>[G] On the way from Baton [D7] Rouge to New [G] Orleans.<\/span><\/p>\n

[CHORUS – WITH BASS WALK]<\/span>
\n[G] On your way down to the [D7] Gulf my honey – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[G] Down to the [D7] Gulf my baby! – – – –\u00a0<\/span>Way [G] Down to the [D7] Gulf of [G] Mexico<\/span>
\nLONG PAUSE – NC<\/span>
\n“One more time!”<\/span>
\n[G] On your way down to the [D7] Gulf of [G] Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[C7] – LISTEN ON YOUTUBE [CHORUS – WITH BASS WALK] [C] Mighty Mississippi, roll [G] a-long,\u00a0 – – – – [C] Lazy river, sing your [G] song, – – – –\u00a0And it’s [G] away, [B7] Dixie, [C7] steady as you [A7] go – – – –\u00a0[G] On your way down … CLICK TO VIEW SONGMighty Mississippi<\/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":[133,126,13,116,117,115,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-new-christy-minstrels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582","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=24582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27662,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582\/revisions\/27662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}