Skip
per said,
I'll race you to the levee
Gonna beat you down to
New
Orleans
He said,
I've got a paddler wheeler
That'll beat the
Mississippi
Delta
Queen
Bayou people gonna line up on the river
Gonna come from miles to see
The fastest boat on the mighty
Mississippi, my good ship
Robert
E.
Lee
Captain said, uh -uh,
there ain't nothin' faster from
Memphis to
New
Orleans
He said, uh -uh,
there ain't a finer lady than the
Mississippi
Delph
Queen
Skipper said, we'll start from
St.
Louis.
Captain said, fine with me.
Skipper said, it'll all be over
before we reach
Tennessee.
But one mile out on that foggy,
foggy morning,
he looked toward
New
Orleans.
And way up front was the
paddle wheel
churning on the
Mississippi
Delta
Queen.
Two miles south of
Natchez,
Mississippi, the robber
Lee ran aground, skipper said I'll
have to go with her if the robber
Lee goes down, now the
Mississippi
River ain't no place
to be on a cold and foggy morn
But above all the screaming
and the cries of doom
came the sound of a paddle
wheel horn
Someone cried, look up to the
Mississippi
I think I see the crown of a queen
I do believe we'll all be saved by
the
Mississippi
Delta
Queen
Skipper said, uh -huh
Look up the
Mississippi, finest sight I've ever seen
He said, uh -huh,
there ain't a finer lady than the
Mississippi
Desert
Queen
The captain brought the
Queen behind
Robin and pushed him into
New
Orleans
The people cheered the first one to the levee,
the good ship
Robert
E.
Lee
The mayors said it looked like the
winner of the race is the
Robert
E.
Lee
But the skipper cried, hold on,
the real winner is the
Mississippi
Delta
Queen
He said, I'd like to steal her cause there
ain't a paddle wheeler like the
Mississippi
Delta
Queen
Yeah.