Biography:
Tex Ritter (Woodward Maurice Ritter, January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting (son John and grandson Jason). He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Tex Ritter, the son of James Everett Ritter and Martha Elizabeth Matthews grew up on his family's farm in Panola County and attended grade school in Carthage.
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Jack O' Diamonds Jack O' Diamonds and I know you of old
A7 D
You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold
Whiskey you villain you've been my downfall
A7 D
You've kicked me you've cuffed me but I love you for all
It's a whiskey rye whiskey whiskey I cry
A7 D
If I don't get rye whiskey well I think I will die
[ooooh ahhhhh ooooh]
A7
[drunken yell] [hiccuping]
D
[drunken yell]
It's a beefsteak when I'm hungry rye whiskey when I'm dry
A7 D
A greenback when I'm hard up it's a heaven when I die
I'll go to yonder holler and I'll build me a still
A7 D
Give you a gallon for a five dollar bill
It's a whiskey rye whiskey whiskey I cry
A7 D
If a tree don't fall on me I'll live till I die
[ooooh ahhhhh ooooh]
A7
[drunken yell] [hiccuping]
D
[drunken yell]
[slower tempo and less strumming]
If the ocean was whiskey and I was a duck
A7 D
I'd dive to the bottom and never come up
[back to normal tempo]
But the ocean ain't whiskey and I ain't a duck
A7 D
I'll play Jack O' Diamonds just to much ha ha ha
Whiskey rye whiskey whiskey I cry
A7 D
Whiskey don't kill me I'll live till I die
[ooooh ahhhhh ooooh]
A7
[drunken yell] [hiccuping]
D
[drunken yell]
Jack O' Diamonds Jack O' Diamonds and I know you of old
A7 D
You've robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold
Whiskey you villain you've been my downfall
A7 D
You've kicked me you've cuffed me but I love you for all
It's a whiskey rye whiskey whiskey I cry
A7 D
If I don't get rye whiskey well I think I will die
[ooooh ahhhhh ooooh]
A7
[drunken yell] [hiccuping]
D
[drunken yell]
It's a beefsteak when I'm hungry rye whiskey when I'm dry
A7 D
A greenback when I'm hard up it's a heaven when I die
I'll go to yonder holler and I'll build me a still
A7 D
Give you a gallon for a five dollar bill
It's a whiskey rye whiskey whiskey I cry
A7 D
If a tree don't fall on me I'll live till I die
[ooooh ahhhhh ooooh]
A7
[drunken yell] [hiccuping]
D
[drunken yell]
[slower tempo and less strumming]
If the ocean was whiskey and I was a duck
A7 D
I'd dive to the bottom and never come up
[back to normal tempo]
But the ocean ain't whiskey and I ain't a duck
A7 D
I'll play Jack O' Diamonds just to much ha ha ha
Whiskey rye whiskey whiskey I cry
A7 D
Whiskey don't kill me I'll live till I die
[ooooh ahhhhh ooooh]
A7
[drunken yell] [hiccuping]
D
[drunken yell]
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