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Sandy Mc Lean Lyr Req: Steamboat Bill (Shields/Leighton) (28) RE: Lyr Req: Steamboat Bill 26 Mar 13


The old cylinder recording of Steamboat Bill can be heard here:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=Steamboat+Bill&num=1&start=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=id

There are two verses and a chorus missing in the DT and on this thread.
It is the 2nd and 3rd verse and the second chorus.

Bill he gave the signal for to ------ on steam
Loudly blew his whistle just to clear the stream
The sky along the river was a-getting mighty black
From the smoke that came a-rolling from the old smokestack

Listen says the fireman to Steamboat Bill
We haven't coal enough aboard the boilers to fill
Billy quickly told him as he gave the wheel a turn
Feed the boilers with the ------ 'till we get coal to burn

Steamboat Bill tearing down the Mississippi
Steamboat Bill, my how Billy cussed
Steamboat Bill tearing down the Mississippi
Got to beat that record if the boilers bust

There are a couple of words that I can't catch so I would appriciate
someone filling them in!
         Thanks,
                Sandy


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