Goat’s Riverboat

A candle burns from inside an old riverboat,
Its paddles churning upriver
Messenger Chicken glides in holding the
Tidings that will make our hearts shiver.

She lands on the deck and pecks at the door
She finds goat inside waiting at the organ.
Goat was a kid when the steamboat captain
Would gamble and drink til dawn.
Some nights they’d get so desperate they would wager
the steamboat they were playing on.
(That’s how goat became the owner and installed the organmusic converter.)

Goat’s riverboat doesn’t need gasoline
It doesn’t need to burn coal
Goat’s riverboat’s engine does’t use steam
It runs on pure rock n’ roll.

(Arpeggio: time, tender nostalgia)
Goat unfolds the winged messenger’s note.
He reads: “dearest friend, I wrote
This song for you, I hope helps you get back home again
Upriver so far away

Goat plays the first notes and the river boat surges.
Messenger chicken clucks out words of encouragement
The wind on his face, the steamboat races on upriver
Passing by familiar places he used know
like the back of his hoof.

(arpeggio)
Goat’s riverboat doesn’t need gasoline
It doesn’t need to burn coal
Goat’s riverboat’s engine does’t use steam
It runs on pure rock n’ roll.

He stands on deck and sees the shore rushing past
Other villages pass by fast. The ship is powerful
Goat is going home. To his house on waterfall mountain
To the quiet lake of ten million blooming yellow flowers

Goat plays the third page and the steamboat begins to fly
Over a waterfall 299 foot tall. Goat smiles and sighs
“This song is perfect, it’s just what I needed.”
Now go chicken, use the night breezes
To float all the way back home downriver, downwind
Back to Dani’s farm again (Fmaj7)
And carry this note I wrote for him.
And tell him thanks for the new song
and that Goat's riverboat's horn blew, loud and true
three times
three times
three times

Goat’s riverboat doesn’t need gasoline
It doesn’t need to burn coal
Goat’s riverboat’s engine does’t use steam
It runs on pure rock n’ roll.

Goat’s riverboat doesn’t need to burn oil
It doesn’t harness solar power
Goat’s riverboat's engine combusts musical dreams
And then goes 500 miles an hour!