Im gonna tell you a story thats all This job I had one time as a scout
I had a hard day at the office and the boss wasnt in The day this hired legged guitar picker just happened to come Well, he walks into my office a great big grin And folks thats where my really begins
He said, Son my name is Boregard I to you from Tupelo Mississippi I write songs thatll sing a bird I play licks on my like you aint never heard"
"But Im down on my luck, things are just a slack I quarter in my pocket and a shirt on my back But you buy me supper, give 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 me the Tupelo Mississippi Flash"
Well, I knew I was in a with some kind 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 boss got back and we both had a When I told him bout the Tupelo Flash And pretty soon I had the circlin' around About this nut that we had in our town
I said, Watch him everybody, the boys He around callin' himself the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well, and it happened one day I was drivin' to my home I happened to have my car radio on I heard the jockey ravin' about a brand new smash By a kid the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well, I almost wrecked my I through a red light, I hit the traffic cop, why
Well, my storys got an ending and its short and The boss man he me and left me out in the street But I got a new job now and Im learnin fast Im drivin the bus for the Mississippi Flash
And his Cadillac, Im driving for him too And yacht hes got, and his aeroplane Well, chauffeur, so good, I say Mississippi, who ever heard of it, why
I'll the boy him somebody