Im gonna you a story thats all about This job I had one time as a talent
I had a day at the office 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 story really
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 guitar like you never heard"
"But Im down on my luck, things are just a little I quarter in my pocket and a shirt on my back But you buy me some supper, me a place I can sleep" He said, Ill you some songs Thatll knock your to creak, I got talent boy" Said, "Back home they call me the Tupelo Flash"
Well, I knew I was in a room with some of a nut When he pulled out pack of used cigarette butts So thats when I told him, We cant use you So I handed the boy a and I sent 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 this Mississippi nut we had in our town
I said, Watch him everybody, the squirrely He walks around callin' himself the Tupelo Mississippi
Well, and it happened one day while I was drivin' to my I just happened to have my car on When I heard the jockey ravin' about a brand new By a kid called the Tupelo Mississippi
Well, I almost 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 fast Im the bus for the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And his Cadillac, Im driving for him too And that yacht hes got, and his Well, chauffeur, so good, I say Mississippi, who ever heard of it, why
I'll the boy him somebody