Chords: - x46654 - xx0232 - xx5343 - 022100 - 133211 - 244222 - 320033 or 355433 - x02220 - x24432 The stuff: Showboat coming up the river   See her lanterns flicker in the gentle breeze I can hear the crickets singing in the evening   Old Dixie Lily moving past the cypress trees My little boat she rocks easy   I’ve been catching catfish in the creek all day Oh and I’ve never seen ladies like those on the big boats   Must be fancy breeding lets you live that way Dixie Lily chugging like a grand old lady Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run               Papa says that I’m a dreamer   Says them skeetas bit me one too many times Oh but I never get lonesome living on the river   Watching old Lily leave the world behind Dixie Lily chugging like a grand old lady Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run               Oooh Dixie Lily chugging like a grand old lady Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run oooh Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run