Radio John

Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste Radio John (Sam Bush)’ [Verse] D Started out working in the summertime A D docks of the Mississippi, Valley barge Line D Stoking towboats on those long hot days A D Getting half days off, sometimes with pay D Became a steamboat captain D Wrote the songs to Mark Twang A D Rolling down the river to New Orleans [Chorus] G D Oh, I can hear something coming up around the bend G A It's the Julia Belle Swain, boys, gleaming and steaming on in D And it's Radio John standing at the helm A D With a wave and a smile and some yarn to tell [Verse] D He loved life on the river and the fiddle tunes A D Of blind Ed Haley and Benny Martin too D He always played them songs with a Vamp in the Middle A D With a hustle and a shuffle and a skittle wah diddle D He wrote songs every day, lord, he'd scratch and scribble A D So the tunes that he wrote, he could play on his fiddle [Chorus] G. D Well, I went up the river come away last Sunday night G A With my fiddle and my banjer and my baby there to hold me tight D A banjo man, he rolled while he sang A D With rhythm like a piston on a railroad train [Verse] D Gotta see Radio John with his two-toned shoes A D A-slipping and a-sliding while he danced for you D He knew every crooked turn, up 'n' down the Mississippi A D He was a Huckleberry Finn, an airwaves hippie D Radio John, a steamboat troubadour A D A Mississippi Sawyer, like we'd never seen before [Chorus] G D He spun those tunes in St. Louie and Illinois, they say G A He played Bill, Earl and Lester and some boys named Bray D You could hear his voice every night 'til dawn A. D So cut your television off and turn your radio on D It's Radio John [Verse] D He danced, and he played in the bars and the halls A D While he was tapping his shoes, we was having a ball D Yeah, Radio John had us all sing along A D Just a-clapping and a-stomping to every one of his songs [Outro] G D He could make us happy and sometimes make us cry G A And looking back now, I wish we never had to say goodbye D It was 6-9-0 KSTL A D Where he played those songs we all knew so well D Radio John