Jack Ingram - Rita Ballou guitar chord

Jack Ingram

Rita Ballou

Verse

C

She could dance that slow Uvalde

F

Shuffle to some cowboy hustle

C

How she made them cowboy buckles

G

Shine, shine, shine

C

Wild-eyed and Mexican silvered

F

Trickin' dumb old cousin Willard

C G C

Into thinkin that he's got her this time

Chorus

F C

Hill country honky-tonkin Rita Ballou

C F G

Every beer joint in town has played a fool for you

F C

Backslidin' barrel ridin' Rita Ballou

C G C

Ain't a cowboy in Texas would not ride a bull for you

Verse

She's a rawhide rope and velvet mixture

Walkin' talkin Texas texture

Hightimin' barroom fixture kind of a girl

She's the queen of the cowboys

Look at old Willard grinnin' now boys

You'd of thought there's less fools in this world

Chorus

Solo

Bridge

C

So good luck Willard and here's to you

Am

And here's to Rita and I hope she'll do ya

F

Right all night

G C

Lord I wish I was the fool in your shoes

Chorus