Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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I'm gonna tell you a story
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This job I had one time as a talent scout,
hmm.
I had a hard day at the office and the
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The day this hired legged guitar picker
just happened to come around.
Well, he walks in my office with
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my story really begins.
He said, 'Son my name is
I come to you from Tupelo Mississippi.
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I write songs that'll sing like a bird,
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I play licks on my guitar like
you ain't never heard.
But I'm down on my luck and
things are just a little slack.
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I gotta quarter in my pocket
and a shirt on my back.
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But you buy me some supper and give
me a place I can sleep
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He said 'I'll sing you some songs
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that'll rock your head to sleep.
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I got talent boy. Said back home they call me
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D
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the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
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Well I knew I was in a room
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with some kind of a nut
When he pulled out that pack
of used cigarette butts.
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So that's when I told him
'We can't use you today'
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So I handed the boy a dollar
and sent him on his way
Well the boss got back and
we both had a laugh
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When I told him 'bout the
Tupelo Mississippi Flash
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And pretty soon I had the story
circling around
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E
About this Mississippi nut
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that we had in our town.
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I said, 'watch him everybody,
the boy's squirrelly!
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He walks around calling himself the Tupelo
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A
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A
Mississippi
Flash.'
Well it happened one day while
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I was driving to my home
I just happened to have
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my car radio on.
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When I heard the jockey raving
Em
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about a brand new smash
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A
By a kid called the Tupelo
Mississippi Flash
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I almost wrecked my automobile
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I went through a red light
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I hit the traffic cop....Why??
Well my story's got an ending
and it's short and sweet
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The boss man he fired me and
left me out in the street
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But I got a new job now and
Em
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I'm as learnin' real fast
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I'm drivin' the bus for
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A
the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
driving that for him too
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And that yacht he's got.
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Well chauffeur, chauffeur I hear him say
Outro 1
who ever heard of it...........
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