River Rat Jimmy

Drums are still playing
 I can see them marching close
 This he walks like a shadow
 And that he dances like a ghost
 The one that looks like Jimmy, Lord he scares me the most
 River Rat Jimmy and Jehosophat
 Playing boyhood mumblypeg
 A six inch bowie blade
 Out the top my redwing kickers
 And down a muddy slippery grade
 To the fever pitch savannah where grand daddy lay
 River Rat Jimmy and Jehosophat
 Little Jimmy ghostie face
 Ate off the kitchen floor
 Cause woman-Mum threw dinner plates
 At drunken Dad on the door
 He would cop his cans of beer
 And close his eyes and soar
 River Rat Jimmy and Jehosophat
 Shouting revelation out
 A boychild man of ten
 Never looking up to heaven
 Lord it was heaven there and then
 And we wrapped our bloodied fingers like a shine-eyed mister zen
 River Rat Jimmy and Jehosophat
 Sho-ly, sho-ly
 Neither of us knew who'd pop
 And who would sink the lake
 And who would run off fast enough before the bow string would break
 Man we was crying for tomorrow
 Through the crying and the shake
 River Rat Jimmy and Jehosophat