Old man river, that old man he just keeps rolling along.
Mississippi river runnin' backwards, earthquake the land, it happened down here in 1912 it's happening here again.
Feast and ya'all fire and flood, abominations you understand, don't need no old testament profit to tell me we ain't living in the promise land.
"Everybody sing blow Gabriel blow, yeah blow that ragtime jazz, judgment day down here y'all in the land of the razzmatazz."
I saw carpet sweepers, ovens, I saw busted down television screens. Empty t.v. Evangelist cats with their hair all slicked up brill cream. Now the gospel news truly real bad news no need to invent all the doom and gloom, it's a one legged race to the liquor store, it's a hop and jump into the doom.
"Everybody sing blow Gabriel blow, yeah blow that ragtime jazz, day coming down here y'all in the land of the razzmatazz."
Steamboat whistle blowing under water, is backwards and upside down, baby Moses in the bulrushes paddling sidways to higher ground.
Old ladies gambling river boat casinos, whirlpools swallowing em down insurance executives and fuller brush salesmen bushwhacked trying to leave town. But lifeboats went backwards up the mississippi river to the ancient Missouri side up thru Iowa, Minnesota into the hands of a righteous God.
"Everybody sing Gabriel blow, yeah blow that ragtime jazz, judgment day coming down here y'all in the land of the razzmatazz."