Tom: C#m

    C#m         B        C#m        B
    Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone.
    C#m        B                A              B
    Lived 9 to 5 and worked his fingers to the bone.
    C#m         B            Dbm             B
    Just barely out of school, came from the edge of town.
    C#m           B              A                    B
    Fought like a switchblade so no one could take him down.
    A                   F#
    He had no money, ooh, no good at home.
       Ab                            F#  Ab A                B
    He walked the streets a soldier and he fought the world alone.

    And now it's.....
    C#m          A                 E            B
    Eighteen and life you got it.  Eighteen and life you know.
    C#m           A              E            B
    Your crime is time and it's, eighteen and life to go.
    C#m          A                 E            B
    Eighteen and life you got it.  Eighteen and life you know.
    C#m           A              E            B       Dbm
    Your crime is time and it's, eighteen and life to go.
    C#m     B               C#m                B
    Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline.
    C#m         B             A             B
    It kept his motor running, but it never kept him clean.
    C#m         B              C#m           B
    They say he loved adventure, Ricky's the wild one.
    C#m        B             A                B
    He married trouble had a courtship with a gun.
    A                            F#
    Bang, bang shoot 'em up, the party never ends.
        Ab                    F#   Ab  A                  B
    You can't think of dying when that bottle's your best friend.

    And now it's....

    (Chorus)
    E                             B
    "Accidents will happen", they all heard Ricky say.
      A                                     B                  Dbm
    He fired his six-shot to the wind, that child blew a child away.

    (Chorus)