Preachin' The Blues - David Wilcox

Sittin' on a riverboat

Havin' a party

Me and my Cajun Queen

She’s turnin' twenty-one on the Mississippi river

Headin' down to New Orleans

The year is 1894

Oh come on mama

And love me some more

Her dark eyes flash

Like a gambler’s rings

She shakes her pretty head and sings

Life for me is a riverboat fantasy

Watchin’the sun go down

A rock and roll band

With a reefer in my hand

Now look at that wheel go around

Cocaine kisses and moonshine Misses

That’s the life for me

I’m sailing away from my heartache

On a riverboat fantasy

Can’t think, can’t drink

Anymore whisky

I could’a drunk a river dry

Mmmmm… this old boat she’s

Just sittin' in the moonlight

Catchin' the gleam in her eye

Showers of rain come pourin' down

The sky full of stars

Like a french lace gown

Shimmer, glimmer

I think I’m gonna fall

Whoops catch me mama, that’s all

Life for me is a riverboat fantasy

Watchin' the sun go down

A rock and roll band

With a reefer in my hand

Now look at that wheel go around

Cocaine kisses and moonshine Misses

That’s the life for me

I’m sailing away from my heartache

On a riverboat fantasy

Delta sun beats down like a hammer

Mmmm… it gives the low down blues

I’ve got a cotton gin

I’ll weave and spin

And shake the dust from my shoes

I made my money

I found me a honey

To tickle me under my chin

When mornin' comes

I’ll ride into town

And worry 'bout the shape I’m in

Life for me is a riverboat fantasy

Watchin' the sun go down

A rock and roll band

With a reefer in my hand

Now look at that wheel go around

Cocaine kisses and moonshine Misses

That’s the life for me

Yes it is

I’m sailing away from my heartache

On a riverboat fantasy