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Catfish John Karaoke - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

This title is a cover version of Catfish John as made famous by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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The CDG format (also called CD+G or MP3+G) is suitable for most karaoke machines. It includes an MP3 file and synchronized lyrics (Karaoke Version only sells digital files (MP3+G) and you will NOT receive a CD).

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About

With backing vocals (with or without vocals in the KFN version)

Tempo: variable (around 182 BPM)

In the same key as the original: D

Duration: 04:01 - Sample at: 01:07

Release date: 2002
Genres: Country, Folk, In English
Original songwriter: Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds

All files available for download are backing tracks, they're not the original music.

Lyrics Catfish John

Mama said
Don't go near that river
Don't be hanging around old Catfish John
Come the morning
I'd always be there walking in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn
Born a slave in the town of Vicksburg traded for a chestnut mare
He never spoke a word in anger though his load was hard to bear
Mama said
Don't go near that river
Don't be hanging around old Catfish John
Come the morning
I'd always be there walking in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn
Catfish John was a river hobo who lived and died on the river bed
Thinking back
I still remember
I was proud to be his friend
Mama said
Don't go near that river
Don't be hanging around old Catfish John
Come the morning
I'd always be there walking in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn
Let me dream of another morning and a time so long ago
When the sweet magnolia blossomed and the cotton fields were white as snow
Mama said
Don't go near that river
Don't be hanging around old Catfish John
Come the morning
I'd always be there walking in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn
Come the morning
I'd always be there walking in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn

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