Guitar man (video)

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1. Well, I quit my job down at the car wash,

I left my momma a goodbye note,

by sundown I’d left Kingston with my guitar under my coat.

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I hitch-hiked all the way down to Memphis got a room at the Y.M.C.A.,

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for the next three weeks I went a hauntin’ them night clubs,

lookin’ for a place a play.

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Well, I thought my pickin’ would set ‘em on fire,

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but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

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2. Well, I nearly ‘bout starved to death down in Memphis,

I run outta money and luck,

so I bummed me a ride down to Macon, Georgia

on a overloaded poultry truck.

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I thumbed on down to Panama City,

started pickin’ out some of them all-night bars,

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hopin’ I could make myself a dollar makin’ music on my guitar.

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I got the same old story at them all night piers,

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that there ain’t no room around here for a guitar man

“We don’t need no guitar man, son.”

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+ So I slept in the hobo jungles, I bummed a thousand miles of track,

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till I found myself in Mobile, Alabama in a club they call “Big Jack’s”.

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A little four piece band was jammin’, so I took my guitar and I sat in,

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I showed ‘em what a band would sound like

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with a swingin’ little guitar man, show ‘em, son !

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3. If you ever take a trip down to the ocean,

find yourself down around Mobile,

well, make it out to a club called “Jack’s” if you got a little time to kill.

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Just follow that crowd of people, you’ll wind up out on his dance floor,

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diggin’ the finest little five piece group up and down the Gulf of Mexico.

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And guess who’s leadin’ that five piece band ?

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Wouldn’t you know it’s that swingin’ little guitar man !

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Yeah, yeah ! - - - + A - D - A ....

(orig. = capo 4th) (Elvis Presley)