Im tell you a story thats all about This job I had one as a talent scout
I had a day at the office and the boss wasnt in town The day this hired legged guitar picker just happened to come Well, he walks into my office with a big grin And folks thats where my really begins
He said, Son my is Boregard Rippy I come to you from Tupelo I songs thatll sing like a bird I play licks on my like you aint never heard"
"But Im down on my luck, things are a little slack I gotta quarter in my and a shirt on my back But you buy me some supper, give me a I can sleep" He said, Ill you some songs Thatll knock your to creak, I got talent boy" Said, "Back home they call me the Tupelo Flash"
Well, I I was in a room with some kind of a nut When he out that pack of used cigarette butts So thats when I told him, We cant use you So I the boy a dollar and I sent him on his way
Well, the boss got back and we had a laugh When I told him the Tupelo Mississippi Flash And pretty soon I had the story around About this Mississippi nut we had in our town
I said, Watch him everybody, the boys He walks around himself the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well, and it happened one day while I was to my home I just happened to my car radio on When I heard the jockey ravin' about a brand new By a kid called the Tupelo Mississippi
Well, I almost wrecked my I went through a red light, I hit the cop, why
Well, my got an ending and its short and sweet The boss man he fired me and left me out in the But I got a new job now and Im learnin real Im drivin the bus for the Tupelo Flash
And his Cadillac, Im driving for him too And that yacht hes got, and his Well, chauffeur, so good, I say Mississippi, who ever heard of it, why
I'll the boy him somebody