Chords for Sammy Davis Jr - Ol' Man River

I would like to close the show tonight with a song _ [Eb] that means an awful lot to me.
_ I think it means a lot to my people.
_ _ [Em] Though it was written many, many years ago, I [Ab] can think of no better testimony than right now
for what it has to say _ in terms of man's inhumanity [Eb] to man
_ _ and the hope that one day we will all [Bb] respect _ each other _ for the dignity of man.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Here we all work _ _ along the [Ab] Mississippi
_ _ _ [Eb] Here we all work _ _ while the white [Bb] folks play
_ Pulling [Eb] them ropes _ from the dawn [Ab] till sunset _
And [Eb] _ getting no rest _ _ _ [Fm] till our [D] judgment _
[Eb] day
_ You [Gm] [Cm] don't look up [Gm] and you don't [Cm] look [G] down
[Gm] You don't ask [Cm] make _ [Gm] the white [D] boss frown
So [Gm] you bend your [Cm] knee, _ you _ [Gm]
bow your head
[C] _ And _ _ [Gm] you pull _ [Am] them ropes _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ [Cm] until _ _ _ _ [Fm] you're dead
_ [Bb] There's _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
an old man _ _ _ [Ab] called the Mississippi
_ _ _ _ [C] _
That's the old man _ that I [Fm] longs to _ be _ _
[Abm] What does he care _ [Db] if his folks [Abm] _ ain't [Eb] happy? _ _
_ _ _ [E] [Abm] And what does he care _ _ if [E] _
the [Bb] _ _ land _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ ain't free?
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ That old man [Ab] River, _ _ _ _ [Eb] he don't say [Ab] nothing
_ [Eb] But he must know something, he _ [D] just keep rolling
[Bb] _ _
He [Fm] keeps on [Bb] rolling _
_ _ _ [Eb] along
[Ab] _ _
[Eb] See _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
he don't [Cm] plant taters, _ [Eb] don't plant _ _ _ [Ab] nobody's cotton _ _
[Eb] And them, them [Ab] that plants them, he [Abm] _ _ [Eb] _ soon _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ [Gbm] forgon _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] And _ _ old man River, _ he [Fm] just keep _ _ [Bb] rolling _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ along
[Ab] _ _
[Eb] But [Db] _ [G] _ _ _ you and me, we sweat, we strain
Bodies all aching, and racked with [D] pain
Hey you boy, lift that barge, [G] you over there, _ tote [Gm] that beer _
_ [D] [Gm] And if you get a little drunk, _ _ _ _ then you [F]
[Fm] land _ _ in [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
jail _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] I, _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ I gets weary, _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ and I'm [Ab] sick of trying
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
I's tired _ [Bb] of living, _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ but I ain't afraid [C] _ of _ [F] dying
_ [Eb] _ _ [G] _ _ But [Eb] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ old [Cm] man River, _ _ _ _ _ he [Fm] just _ _ _ _ keeps [Eb] _ _ rolling _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
along
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _