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I've Been Floating Down The Old Green River

Words by Bert Kalmer, Music by Joe Cooper

Copyright 1915 by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F          C7	F         C7	F	C7        Gm
Eb        Gm	F         F7	G7	Gm        C7
F          C7	F         C7	F	Gm
G7	C         C7	G7	C           C7
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
F	-           D7	G7	-
C7	-	F	-
F7	Bb7	D7	G7        C7
F	-          D7	G7       C7	F   (C7 to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right with the beats on the bass notes.

For faster strumming, play 8-beats for each cell, with the first and third beats on the bass notes.

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Verse:

Half -past four, Dan Mc -Graw Came sneak -ing to his wif -ey's door

She'd been wait -ing up all night, Wait -ing for him to go to bed.

Dan -ny smiled Like a child But his wif -ey grew ver -y wild.

"Where have you been all night long," she cried. And this is what Dan -ny re -plied:

 

Chorus:

I've been float -ing down the old Green Riv -er on the good ship Rock & Rye.

But we drift -ed to far, we got stuck on a bar, I was feel -ing a -lone, wish -ing I were home,

The ship went down with the cap -tain and crew, There was on -ly one thing left for me to do,

I had to drink that whole Green Riv -er, just to get back home to you.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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