River Rat Jimmy Lyrics - Shine Eyed Mister Zen - Kelly Joe Phelps

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