yonder comes a sucker

railroad steamboat river and canal yonder comes a sucker and he's got my girl

and she's gone gone gone gone and she's gone gone gone

and i'll bid her my last farewell

i fell in love with a pretty little thing i thought that wedding bells would ring

she was as sweet as sweet could be till i found out what she did to me

railroad steamboat. i asked her mother to let her go she whispered mother please tell him no

though he may think that i am true there's plenty more who think so too

railroad steamboat. i won't cry my life away some other sucker will have to pay

and when he finds that she is gone i guess i'll hear him sing this song

railroad steamboat. and i'll bid her my last farewell