Lyrics

[Verse 1] Well, I quit my job down at the car wash I left my mama a goodbye note By sundown I'd left Kingston With my guitar under my coat I hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis Got a room at the YMCA For the next three weeks I went hunting them nightclubs Just looking for a place to play Well, I thought my picking would set them on fire But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man [Verse 2] Well, I nearly about starved to death down in Memphis I run out of money and luck So I bought me a ride down to Macon, Georgia On a overloaded poultry truck I thumbed on down to Panama City Started picking out some of them all night bars Hoping I could make myself a dollar Making music on my guitar I got the same old story at them all night piеrs "There ain't no room around herе for a guitar man" "We don't need a guitar man, son" [Verse 3] So I slept in the hobo jungles Roamed a thousand miles of track Till I found myself in Mobile, Alabama At a club they call Big Jack's A little four-piece band was jamming So I took my guitar and I sat in I showed them what a band would sound like With a swinging little guitar man Show them, son Uhm [Instrumental Break] [Verse 4] If you ever take a trip down to the ocean Find yourself down around Mobile Make it on out to a club called Jack's If you got a little time to kill Just follow that crowd of people You'll wind up out on its dance floor Digging the finest little five-piece group Up and down the Gulf of Mexico Guess who's leading that five-piece band Well, wouldn't you know, it's that swinging little guitar man hey, hey Uhm [Instrumental Break] [Outro 1] Tell me what'd I say Tell me what'd I say right now Tell me what'd I say Tell me what'd I say Tell me what'd I say now Swinging little guitar man [Outro 2] Tell me one more time Tell me one more time now, ooh Tell me one more time Tell me one more time now Tell me what'd I say Swinging little guitar man [Outro 2] Tell me one more time Tell me one more time right now, ooh Tell me one more time Tell me what'd I say Tell me what'd I say Swinging little guitar man