| Well I quit my job down at the carwash I left my mama a goodbye note
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| By sundown I’d left Kingston with my guitar under my coat
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| Hitchhiked down to Memphis I got a room at the YMCA
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| For the next three weeks I went a hountin' them night clubs
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| Looking for a place to 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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| No they didn’t hey hey hey keep a kyo yodel hoo hey hey sock it to son
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| Well I nearly bout starved to death down in Memphis I run out of money and luck
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| And I bummed me a ride down to Macon Georgia on a overloaded poultry truck
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| Hitchhiked down to Panama City started checkin' out them all night bars
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| Hopin' I could make myself a dollar makin' music on my guitar
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| Well I thought my pickin' would set 'rm on fire
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| But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man
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| No they didn’t hey hey hey keep a kyo yodel hoo hey hey hook it to son
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| So if you ever take a trip down to the ocean find yourself down round Mobile
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| Just make it on out to the club called Jack’s if you got a little time to kill
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| You’ll find that crowd of people out on this 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 wouldn’t know who’s leadin' that band
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| Why wouldn’t you know it’s that swingin' little swingin' little guitar man
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| Yes he is hey hey hey keep a kyo yodel hoo hey hey take it on out
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| Guitar man guitar man guitar man guitar man
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| Guitar man guitar man guitar man |