Steamboat, steamboat
Take me home tonight.
For there's a girl that I want to hold tight.
She's waiting for me at the pier.
It feels like I've been waiting for years.
Steamboat, steamboat
Don't slow down around the river bend.
Tell the captain the moon will light
Our way again.
Pulling up to the dock just around eleven
O'clock.
Same girl different town, she's always moving around.
Where ever she is
That's where I'm found, that's where you'll find me.
I'll buy my tickets at the station
I'm tired of chasing you
Every night a new destination
And off we go to the sweetest girl I know
Chug-a long chug-a long
Steamboat, steamboat
Won't you hurry along the way
I see the morning climbing the sky
The moon is changing in time
And our eyes are speaking in rhyme.