Ol' Man River Songtext
von John Charles Thomas

The dockies all work on the Mississippi
The dockies all work while the white folks play
Pulling them boats from the dawn ′til sunset
Getting no rest 'til the judgement day

Let me go ′way from the Mississippi
Let me go 'way from the white man's boat
Show me that stream called the river so blue
That′s the old stream that I long to float


Old man river
This old man river
He must know something
But he don′t say nothing
He just keeps rolling
He keeps on rolling along

You and me we sweat and strain
Body all aching and wracked with pain
Tote that barge, lift that bale
Get a little drunk and you land in jail

I gets weary and sick of trying
And tired of living and feared of dying

But old man river
He just keeps rolling on along