Instruments
| A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 || B7 | B7 | B7 | B7 |
Verse 1
| B7 | B7 |I dreamed I had a good job and I got well paid | B7 | [2/4] B7 | E7 | E7 | I blew it all at the penny arcade| B7 | B7 | A hundred dollars on a Kewpie doll| B7 | [2/4] B7 | E7 | E7 | B7 | B7 | No pretty chick is going to make me crawl
Hook 1
| G7 | G7 F#7 F7 |Get on a TWA to the promised land| E7 | E7 | Every woman, child and man| G7 | G7 | Gets a Cadillac and a great big diamond ring| A7 | A7 | Don't you know you're riding with the king?
Instruments
| B7 | B7 | E7 | A7 |
Verse 2
| B7 | B7 |He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier| B7 | [2/4] B7 | E7 | E7 | He's going to check us all on out of here| B7 | B7 | Up to that mansion on a hill| B7 | [2/4] B7 | E7 | E7 | B7 | B7 | Where you can get your prescription filled
Hook 2
| G7 | G7 F#7 F7 |Get on a TWA to the promised land | E7 | E7 |Everybody, everybody clap your hands| G7 | G7 | And don't you doubt, love, the way that he sings| A7 | A7 | Don't you know you're riding with the king?
Instruments
| B7 | B7 | E7 | A7 | Riding with the king Don't you know you're riding with the king?| B7 | B7 | E7 | A7 |
Bridge
| D7 | D7 | B7 | B7 | A tuxedo and a shiny 335| D7 | D7 | B7 | B7 | You can see it in his face, the blues never lie| G7 | G7 | Tonight everybody's getting their angel wings| A7 | A7 | And don't you know we're riding with the king?
Talk
| B7 | B7 | I stepped out of Mississippi when I was ten years old| E7 | A7 | With a suit cut sharp as a razor and a heart made of gold| B7 | B7 | I had a guitar hanging just about waist high| E7 | A7 | And I'm going to play this thing until the day I die
Fade Out
| B7 | B7 |Don't you know we're riding with the king?| E7 | A7 | Don't you know we're riding with the king?| B7 | B7 | E7 | A7 | Don't you know we're riding with the king?| B7 | B7 | E7 | A7 | Riding, you're riding with the king| B7 | B7 | E7 | A7 | You're riding, you're riding with the king
