Im gonna tell you a thats all about This job I had one as a talent scout
I had a hard day at the and the boss wasnt in town The day this hired legged guitar picker happened to come around Well, he walks my office with a great big grin And folks thats where my really begins
He said, Son my is Boregard Rippy I come to you Tupelo Mississippi I write songs thatll like a bird I play on my guitar like you aint never heard"
"But Im down on my luck, are just 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 some 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 some kind of a nut When he out that pack of used cigarette butts So thats when I told him, We use you today So I the boy a dollar and I sent him on his way
Well, the boss got back and we had a laugh I told him bout the Tupelo Mississippi Flash And pretty soon I had the circlin' around About Mississippi nut that we had in our town
I said, Watch him everybody, the squirrely He walks around callin' the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well, and it one day while I was drivin' to my home I just happened to have my car on When I heard the jockey ravin' a brand new smash By a kid called the Tupelo Flash
Well, I almost my automobile 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 me and left me out in the street But I got a new job now and Im learnin real Im the bus for the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And his Cadillac, Im that for him too And that yacht hes got, and his Well, chauffeur, so good, I say Tupelo Mississippi, who ever of it, why
I'll the boy him somebody