• Song:

    Dancing Ricky

  • Artist:

    Drive-by Truckers

Chords and lyrics as interpreted by Charlie Beer
F                    Gm                      F                  Gm
F                    Gm                      Bb      C          F
       Ricky Boy,                         Ricky Boy,   You got something left to deal with
 Bb          C        F            
What you gonna do about merchandise?
F                    Gm                      Bb      C          F
Ricky Boy,       You got the money,     you got something left to do
Bb           C        F                       
What you gonna do about countin' right?

[CHORUS]
 Dm                    Bb           F
Your shirts too damned small for your body
 Dm                   C                       C
You got your freedom out in the open
 F                    Gm
We got to figure out how to quit all your dancing
C                     C
And go and check out the swag

F                    Gm                      F                  Gm
F                    Gm                      Bb      C          F
  Ricky Boy,         Oh Dancing Ricky,  You've got plenty of moves left to do
 Bb          C        F            
Hey Ricky, don't let the Diabetes get you!
F                    Gm                      Bb      C          F
   Dancing Ricky, Oh Dancing Ricky, You've been spinning just like a ride
Bb           C        F                       
 What you gonna do about acting right? 

[CHORUS]

 [OUTRO}
F                    Gm                      F                  Gm
F                  Gm                   Bb     C           F
  Dancing Ricky,      Oh Dancing Ricky   dont you know youre out of sight


Beautiful Ballad about a wayward employee? By the bass player, she rocks!
Like other simple country rock songs, the twists in this song are not the chords, 
but the words and the phrasing.  
Lines of 4 measures, then 2, then 4, then 3 measures.
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