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[Verse 1] C#7
Well I quit my job down at the car wash
C#7
I left my momma a goodbye note
C#7
By sundown I'd left Kingston
C#7
With my guitar under my coat
F#7
I hitch-hiked all the way down to Memphis
F#7
Got a room at the Y.M.C.A.
C#7
For the next three weeks I went a hauntin' them night clubs
C#7
Lookin' for a place a play
G#7
Well I thought my pickin' would set ‘em on fire
F#7 C#7
But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man
[Verse 2] C#7
Well I nearly ‘bout starved to death down in Memphis
C#7
I run outta money and luck
C#7
So I bummed me a ride down to Macon, Georgia
C#7
On a overloaded poultry truck
F#7
I thumbed on down to Panama City
F#7
Started pickin' out some of them all-night bars
C#7
Hopin' I could make myself a dollar
C#7
Makin' music on my guitar
G#7
I got the same old story at them all night piers
F#7
There ain't no room around here for a guitar man
[Verse 3] F#7
So I slept in the hobo jungles
F#7
I bummed a thousand miles of track
C#7
Til I found myself in Mobile, Alabama
C#7
In a club they call “Big Jack's”
F#7
A little four piece band was jammin'
F#7
So I took my guitar and I sat in
D#7
I showed ‘em what a band would sound like
G#7
with a swingin' little guitar man
C#7 / / / F#7 / / / C#7 / / / C#7
C#7 / / / C#7 / / / F#7 / / / C#7 G#7 / F#7 / C#7 / / / C#7 F#7 G7 G#7
[Verse 4] C#7
So if you ever take a trip down to the ocean
C#7
Find yourself down around Mobile
C#7
Well make it out to a club called “Jack's”
C#7
If you got a little time to kill
F#7
Just follow that crowd of people
F#7
You'll wind up out on his dance floor
C#7
Diggin' the finest little five piece group
C#7
Up and down the Gulf of Mexico
G#7
And guess who's leadin' that five piece band
F#7
Wouldn't you know it's that swingin' little guitar man
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