Im gonna tell you a story thats all This job I had one time as a scout
I had a day at the office and the boss wasnt in town The day this hired legged guitar picker just happened to around Well, he walks into my office with a big grin And folks where my story really begins
He said, Son my name is Rippy I to you from Tupelo Mississippi I songs thatll sing like a bird I play licks on my guitar like you aint 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, me a place I can sleep" He said, Ill sing you songs Thatll your head 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 When he pulled out that of used cigarette butts So thats when I him, We cant use you today So I the boy a dollar and I sent him on his way
Well, the got back and we both had a laugh When I told him the Tupelo Mississippi Flash And soon I had the story circlin' around About Mississippi nut that we had in our town
I said, him everybody, the boys squirrely He walks callin' himself the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well, and it happened one day while I was drivin' to my I happened to have my car radio on When I heard the jockey ravin' about a new smash By a kid called the Tupelo Mississippi
Well, I almost my automobile I went a red light, I hit the traffic 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 fast Im drivin the bus for the Tupelo Mississippi
And his Cadillac, Im that for him too And that hes got, and his aeroplane Well, chauffeur, so good, I say Mississippi, who ever heard of it, why
I'll the boy him somebody