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