Well I dream of a girl and a steering wheel steamboat A pilothouse stove and engine room brass Hanging on a post by the main deck stairway Long hair skippin' in the Mississippi dew Oh the river run wide, run deep, run muddy The river run long after I am gone With the steamboat wheeling on a big wide bend Just skippin' in the Mississippi dew Well I went up the river come way last Sunday Twelve feet of water on the Memphis gauge Wouldn't be home without the muddy water rolling Paddle wheel skippin' in the Mississippi dew Oh thе river run wide, run deep, run muddy Oh the rivеr run long after I am gone With the steamboat wheelin' on a big wide bend Just skippin' in the Mississippi dew Now it used to be Spring I'd ship on the river Thirty five days on a balla [sic] line boat I'd make a little money, get a springtime chicken And take off a skippin' in the Mississippi dew Oh the river run wide, run deep, run muddy Oh the river run long after I am gone With the steam boat wheelin' round a big wide bend Just skippin' in the Mississippi dew Oh the river run wide, run deep, run muddy Oh the river run long after I am gone With the steamboat wheelin' round a big wide bend Just skippin' in the Mississippi dew