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 Jehoshaphat Playing boyhood mumbly peg a six inch bowie blade Out the top of my red wing kickers and down a muddy slippery grade To the fever pitch Savannah where granddaddy lay River rat jimmy and Jehoshaphat River jimmy ghosty face ate off the kitchen floor Cause woman mom threw dinner plates at drunken dad on the door He would cop us cans of beer and close his eyes and soar River rat jimmy and Jehoshaphat Shouting revelation out a boy man child of ten Never looking up to heaven it was heaven there and then We wrapped our bloody fingers like a shine eyed mister zen River rat jimmy and Jehoshaphat Neither us knew who would pop and who would sink the lake And who would run off fast enough before the bow string'd break Man we was crying for tomorrow through the crying and the shake River rat jimmy and Jehoshaphat