Im gonna tell you a story all about This job I had one time as a scout
I had a hard day at the office and the wasnt in town The day this hired guitar picker just happened to come around Well, he walks into my office with a big grin And folks thats where my story really
He said, Son my is Boregard Rippy I come to you from Tupelo I write thatll sing like a bird I play licks on my guitar you aint never heard"
"But Im down on my luck, things are a little slack I gotta quarter in my pocket and a shirt on my But you buy me some supper, give me a I can sleep" He said, Ill you some songs knock your head 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 pulled out that pack of used cigarette 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 and we both had a laugh When I told him bout the Tupelo Mississippi And pretty soon I had the circlin' around About this Mississippi nut we had in our town
I said, him everybody, the boys squirrely He walks around himself the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well, and it happened one day while I was drivin' to my I just happened to have my car on When I the jockey ravin' about a brand new smash By a kid called the Tupelo Flash
Well, I almost my automobile I through a red light, I hit the traffic cop, why
Well, my storys got an ending and its and sweet The boss man he fired me and left me out in the But I got a new job now and Im real fast Im the bus for the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And his Cadillac, Im that for him too And yacht hes got, and his aeroplane Well, chauffeur, so good, I say Tupelo Mississippi, who ever of it, why
I'll the boy Help him