Im gonna tell you a thats all about This job I had one time as a talent
I had a day at the office and the boss 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 really begins
He said, Son my name is Rippy I come to you from Tupelo I write songs thatll sing a bird I play licks on my guitar like you never heard"
"But Im on my luck, things are just a little slack I gotta quarter in my pocket and a on my back But you buy me some supper, give me a I can sleep" He said, Ill sing you songs Thatll knock your to creak, I got talent boy" Said, "Back home they call me the Tupelo Flash"
Well, I knew I was in a room with some of a nut he pulled out that pack of used cigarette butts So when I told him, We cant use you today So I handed the boy a and I sent him on his way
Well, the boss got and we both had a laugh When I told him bout the Mississippi Flash And pretty soon I had the story around this Mississippi nut that we had in our town
I said, Watch him everybody, the boys He walks around himself the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well, and it one day while I was drivin' to my home I just happened to have my car on I heard the jockey ravin' about a brand new smash By a kid called the Tupelo Mississippi
Well, I wrecked my automobile I went through a red light, I hit the cop, why
Well, my storys got an 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 fast Im drivin the bus for the Tupelo 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 heard of it, why
kill the boy Help him