Im gonna tell you a thats all about This job I had one time as a scout
I had a hard day at the office and the boss in town The day this hired legged guitar picker just happened to come Well, he walks my office with a great big grin And folks thats where my story begins
He said, Son my name is Boregard I to you from 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, 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 you some songs Thatll knock head to creak, I got talent boy" Said, "Back home they me the Tupelo Mississippi Flash"
Well, I knew I was in a room with some of a nut When he out that pack of used cigarette butts So thats when I told him, We use you today So I handed the boy a dollar and I him on his way
Well, the boss got back and we both had a When I told him the Tupelo Mississippi Flash And pretty I had the story circlin' around About Mississippi nut that we had in our town
I said, Watch him everybody, the boys He walks around callin' himself the Tupelo Flash
Well, and it happened one day I was drivin' to my home I just happened to my car radio on When I heard the jockey ravin' about a new smash By a kid the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well, I wrecked my automobile I through a red light, I hit the traffic cop, why
Well, my storys got an ending and its and sweet The boss man he me and left me out in the street But I got a new job now and Im real fast Im drivin the bus for the Tupelo Mississippi
And his Cadillac, Im driving for him too And that hes got, and his aeroplane Well, chauffeur, so good, I say Tupelo Mississippi, who ever of it, why
I'll the boy him somebody