• Song:

    Dancing Ricky

  • Artist:

    Drive-by Truckers

Chords and lyrics as interpreted by Charlie Beer
F5                    G5                      F5                  G5
F5                    G5                      Bb5      C5          F5
       Ricky Boy,                         Ricky Boy,   You got something left to deal with
 Bb5          C5        F5            
What you gonna do about merchandise?
F5                    G5                      Bb5      C5          F5
Ricky Boy,       You got the money,     you got something left to do
Bb5           C5        F5                       
What you gonna do about countin' right?

[CHORUS]
 D5                    Bb5           F5
Your shirts too damned small for your body
 D5                   C5                       C5
You got your freedom out in the open
 F5                    G5
We got to figure out how to quit all your dancing
C5                     C5
And go and check out the swag

F5                    G5                      F5                  G5
F5                    G5                      Bb5      C5          F5
  Ricky Boy,         Oh Dancing Ricky,  You've got plenty of moves left to do
 Bb5          C5        F5            
Hey Ricky, don't let the Diabetes get you!
F5                    G5                      Bb5      C5          F5
   Dancing Ricky, Oh Dancing Ricky, You've been spinning just like a ride
Bb5           C5        F5                       
 What you gonna do about acting right? 

[CHORUS]

 [OUTRO}
F5                    G5                      F5                  G5
F5                  G5                   Bb5     C5           F5
  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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