Transcribed from the sound file at http://www.redhotjazz.com/coonsanders.html

READY FOR THE RIVER
(Gus Kahn, Neil Moret)
As recorded by The Coon Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra, May 19, 1928.

INTRO: Get ready, river.

VERSE: Tell the world that I'm all through with it.
No more will I moan.
Burn my home. What can I do with it?
Can't live all alone.
No use wastin' time,
For I just know that I'm—

CHORUS: Ready for the river, the shivery river,
The river that goes down to the sea.
Gonna drown my troubles, and leave just the bubbles
To indicate what used to be me.
Made my will, wrote some notes,
Gonna keep a-walkin' 'til my straw hat floats.
I'm ready for the river, the shivery river,
So get the river ready for me.

[INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE.]

TAG: I'm ready for the river,
So get the river ready for me.