Im gonna 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 picker just happened to come around Well, he walks into my office with a big grin And folks where my story really begins
He said, Son my is Boregard Rippy I come to you Tupelo Mississippi 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 in my pocket and a shirt on my back But you buy me some supper, me a place I can sleep" He said, Ill sing you songs Thatll knock your head to creak, I got boy" Said, "Back they call me the Tupelo Mississippi Flash"
Well, I knew I was in a with some kind of a nut When he pulled out that pack of cigarette butts So thats when I told him, We 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 him bout the Tupelo Mississippi Flash And pretty soon I had the story circlin' About this Mississippi nut that we had in our
I said, Watch him everybody, the squirrely He walks around callin' himself the Mississippi Flash
Well, and it happened one day while I was drivin' to my I just to have my car radio on When I heard the jockey ravin' 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 ending and its short and The boss man he fired me and left me out in the 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
kill the boy Help him