Chords for Kelly Joe Phelps - River Rat Jimmy (Live)
Tempo:
142.7 bpm
Chords used:
Eb
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Gb
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Ab
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret

Jam Along & Learn...
I'm here [B] you sort of glance around the [A] floors
[E] Checking out footwear and [G] lost guitar picks and [Dm] bottle caps
there, and [Am] I swear [G] I thought you had a song called damaged eggs
To [Em] take nothing away from that absolutely beautiful piece of music well, it's only [Eb] Tuesday
[Ab] Don't know what damaged eggs when I
Get a bit [C] of a card.
[Eb] All right
[Bb]
[E] Checking out footwear and [G] lost guitar picks and [Dm] bottle caps
there, and [Am] I swear [G] I thought you had a song called damaged eggs
To [Em] take nothing away from that absolutely beautiful piece of music well, it's only [Eb] Tuesday
[Ab] Don't know what damaged eggs when I
Get a bit [C] of a card.
[Eb] All right
[Bb]
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I'm here [B] you sort of glance around the [A] floors
[D] _
[E] Checking out footwear and [G] lost guitar picks and [Dm] bottle caps
[A] _ _ Cables and [E] I saw your song list there, and [Am] I swear _ _ [G] I thought you had a song called damaged eggs
_ [Am] _ _ _
To _ _ _ [Em] _ take nothing away from that absolutely beautiful piece of music well, it's only [Eb] Tuesday _
_ _ [Ab] Don't know what damaged eggs when I _
_ Get a bit [C] of a card.
He's probably gonna
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] All right
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ Sorry
One another drink then _ _ please _ _ Hey _
_ _ [N] Grew up in a funny little town very dark sort of town _ _ a
Lot of weirdness going on there, and I had a really good friend of mine lived around the corner from where I
_ Was and we used to always get in trouble because we used to never come home from each other's house
And if we weren't at [G] each other's house
We were down at the river trying to catch fish that didn't exist [N] in a river that you couldn't see three inches into
_ Even though it was 20 feet deep because it was nothing but mud, but we had you know
spoons with hooks on them _ _
But there was nothing in there, maybe a few trout, but we were you know thought we might catch Marlin and [Bbm] stuff in _ there
_ [C]
Ricky [Fm] de Leon [Ab] was his name and [Eb] _ he [Ab] unfortunately didn't make it to his 18th [Eb] birthday _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
And [N] I
Wrote this song thinking [Bb] about him _ [Bbm] a few other friends of mine that did make their 18th birthday, but he _ [Eb] sort [Bm] of
Jumped [Bb] in there and said all right
[Bbm] _ Here I am again
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Drums are still playing I can see them marching close
_ Dizzy walks like a shadow and [Cm] then he dances [Eb] like a [Ab] ghost [Ebm] the one that looks like
Jimmy [C] scares me [Ebm] _ most
[C] _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ River [Eb] at Jimmy and Joe's a fat [Ebm] _ _ river [Eb] at Jimmy and Joe's [A] a [Ebm] fat
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ Playing boyhood mumbly peg a six-inch boy
We played out the top of my red wing [Cm] kickers and down a muddy slippery grade [Ebm] to the fever pitch Savannah
Where [C] _ _
granddaddy lay
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ Whoa
Shouted revelation [Eb] at a boy man child a ten
[Gb] _ Never looking up to heaven thought [C] it was heaven there and then [Ebm] and we wrapped our bloody fingers
like a shine I'd miss tourism
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [Gb] a
_ [Ab] Jimmy [Eb] and Joe's a fat like _ a river and Jimmy and Joe's a fat like _
_ _ _ Jimmy and _ Joe's a fat like a river _ Jimmy
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
Boy small town
_ _ Fishing in the river fish their throat and rock across the [Db] creek
Make a [Cm] bridge and walk across
There's nothing to walk [Eb] across to hear we walk across [Ebm] like
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] Teacher
_ _ In the neighborhood [Eb] traveling
_ Thinking about [Gb] the girl back in the classroom
Everything [Eb] crazy like it is dark and it's dark
_ It's dark
_ [Bb] _
It's [Eb] dark and it's dark _ _
River [Bb] _ Jimmy ghosty [Eb] face ate off the kitchen [Gb] floor cuz woman mom
Threw dinner [Eb] plates a drunken dad on the door and [Ebm]
he would cop us cans of beer _
close his eyes and so
[Gb] _ River [Eb] and Jimmy _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Angie
Jim the [Abm] Angie [Eb] holes affair river and Jimmy
_ _ _ [Ab] _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ _ _ Neither _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ [Gb] _
_ [Eb] us _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ knew who [Ebm] would pop and who would sink the lake who could run off fast enough
[Cm] Affordable string break [Ebm] man.
We was running for tomorrow through the crying and the _ [C] shake
[Ebm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
[Ebm] our
[Eb] _ Jimmy and [Bbm] [Eb] Joe's a fat _ _ _ _ Rat Jimmy
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
River _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
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Oh _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh
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[D] _
[E] Checking out footwear and [G] lost guitar picks and [Dm] bottle caps
[A] _ _ Cables and [E] I saw your song list there, and [Am] I swear _ _ [G] I thought you had a song called damaged eggs
_ [Am] _ _ _
To _ _ _ [Em] _ take nothing away from that absolutely beautiful piece of music well, it's only [Eb] Tuesday _
_ _ [Ab] Don't know what damaged eggs when I _
_ Get a bit [C] of a card.
He's probably gonna
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] All right
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ Sorry
One another drink then _ _ please _ _ Hey _
_ _ [N] Grew up in a funny little town very dark sort of town _ _ a
Lot of weirdness going on there, and I had a really good friend of mine lived around the corner from where I
_ Was and we used to always get in trouble because we used to never come home from each other's house
And if we weren't at [G] each other's house
We were down at the river trying to catch fish that didn't exist [N] in a river that you couldn't see three inches into
_ Even though it was 20 feet deep because it was nothing but mud, but we had you know
spoons with hooks on them _ _
But there was nothing in there, maybe a few trout, but we were you know thought we might catch Marlin and [Bbm] stuff in _ there
_ [C]
Ricky [Fm] de Leon [Ab] was his name and [Eb] _ he [Ab] unfortunately didn't make it to his 18th [Eb] birthday _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
And [N] I
Wrote this song thinking [Bb] about him _ [Bbm] a few other friends of mine that did make their 18th birthday, but he _ [Eb] sort [Bm] of
Jumped [Bb] in there and said all right
[Bbm] _ Here I am again
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_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Bbm] _ [Ebm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Drums are still playing I can see them marching close
_ Dizzy walks like a shadow and [Cm] then he dances [Eb] like a [Ab] ghost [Ebm] the one that looks like
Jimmy [C] scares me [Ebm] _ most
[C] _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ River [Eb] at Jimmy and Joe's a fat [Ebm] _ _ river [Eb] at Jimmy and Joe's [A] a [Ebm] fat
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ Playing boyhood mumbly peg a six-inch boy
We played out the top of my red wing [Cm] kickers and down a muddy slippery grade [Ebm] to the fever pitch Savannah
Where [C] _ _
granddaddy lay
[Ebm] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ Whoa
Shouted revelation [Eb] at a boy man child a ten
[Gb] _ Never looking up to heaven thought [C] it was heaven there and then [Ebm] and we wrapped our bloody fingers
like a shine I'd miss tourism
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [Gb] a
_ [Ab] Jimmy [Eb] and Joe's a fat like _ a river and Jimmy and Joe's a fat like _
_ _ _ Jimmy and _ Joe's a fat like a river _ Jimmy
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
Boy small town
_ _ Fishing in the river fish their throat and rock across the [Db] creek
Make a [Cm] bridge and walk across
There's nothing to walk [Eb] across to hear we walk across [Ebm] like
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] Teacher
_ _ In the neighborhood [Eb] traveling
_ Thinking about [Gb] the girl back in the classroom
Everything [Eb] crazy like it is dark and it's dark
_ It's dark
_ [Bb] _
It's [Eb] dark and it's dark _ _
River [Bb] _ Jimmy ghosty [Eb] face ate off the kitchen [Gb] floor cuz woman mom
Threw dinner [Eb] plates a drunken dad on the door and [Ebm]
he would cop us cans of beer _
close his eyes and so
[Gb] _ River [Eb] and Jimmy _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Angie
Jim the [Abm] Angie [Eb] holes affair river and Jimmy
_ _ _ [Ab] _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ _ _ Neither _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ [Gb] _
_ [Eb] us _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ knew who [Ebm] would pop and who would sink the lake who could run off fast enough
[Cm] Affordable string break [Ebm] man.
We was running for tomorrow through the crying and the _ [C] shake
[Ebm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
[Ebm] our
[Eb] _ Jimmy and [Bbm] [Eb] Joe's a fat _ _ _ _ Rat Jimmy
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
River _ _ _ _ _ _
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Oh _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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