Chords for Kelly Joe Phelps- River Rat Jimmy

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_ [Cm] _ _ I [Bb] can see them marching [Eb] close Lizzy walks like [Cm] a shadow and Annie [G] dances
like a ghost [Ab] In the one that looks like [G] Jimmy
Scares me the _ most _ [Fm] _ [Bb] River rat [Cm] Jimmy _ _
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Cm] _ Playing boyhood [Bb] mumbly peg A six inch [Eb] boy played
Out the top of [Gm] my Red Wing kickers And down a [G] muddy slippery grave
[Eb] Till the fever pitch suddenly [Bb] found out where _ _ Granddaddy lay
_ _ [Fm] _ [Bb] River [Cm] rat Jimmy _ [Eb] _ _ _ River [Bb] [Cm] rat Jimmy [Eb] and [Ab] _ _
[D] Jehoshaphat
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_ [Cm] _ Shouting revelation [Bb] out a poor man's [Eb] child's tent
Never looking [Cm] up to heaven it was [G] heaven there and then
_ [Ab] And we wrapped our bloody fingers [G] like a shine I'd missed her zen _ _
[Eb] Oh, River rat [G] Jimmy _ _
_ [Eb] _ River [Cm] rat Jimmy and [Eb] _ Jehoshaphat _ _ _ _
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[Cm] River Jimmy ghosty [Bb] face ate off the kitchen floor
[Ab] Swarming mom through dinner plates [Gm] and drunken dad on the _ [G] _ door
[Ab] Then he would cop us cans of [G] beer and close his eyes in sorrow
[Eb] _ [Bb] River rat [G] Jimmy _ [Gm]
River [Eb] _ [Bb] rat Jimmy and [Cm] _ _ [Eb] _
Jehoshaphat _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Neither of us knew who would pop [Bb] and who would sink the [F] lake
Who could run off fast [G] enough before the boat strangled [Gm] [G] break _
[Ab] One man we were running for [G] tomorrow through the crying and the shake _
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[Bb] River rat Jimmy [Gm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
River [Cm] rat Jimmy and [F] _ _
Jehoshaphat
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