Im gonna tell you a story all about job I had one time as a talent scout
I had a hard day at the 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 story begins
He said, Son my name is Rippy I come to you from Tupelo I write songs sing like a bird I play licks on my guitar like you aint heard"
"But Im down on my luck, are just a little slack I quarter in my pocket and a shirt on my back But you buy me some supper, give me a 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 with 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 and we both had a laugh I told him bout the Tupelo Mississippi Flash And pretty soon I had the story around About this Mississippi nut we had in our town
I said, Watch him everybody, the squirrely He walks callin' himself the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well, and it happened one day I was drivin' to my home I just to have my car radio on When I heard the jockey about a brand new smash By a kid called the Mississippi Flash
Well, I almost my automobile I went a red light, I hit the traffic cop, why
Well, my storys got an and its short and sweet The boss man he fired me and me out in the street But I got a new job now and Im learnin fast Im the bus for the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And his Cadillac, Im that for him too And that hes got, and his aeroplane Well, chauffeur, so good, I say Tupelo Mississippi, who heard of it, why
I'll the boy Help him