Guitar Man — Jerry Reed
Chords and lyrics for Guitar Man by Jerry Reed (key of D).
Verse
Well, I quit my [D7]job down at the car wash,
[D7]Left my mama a goodbye note,By sundown I'd left Kingston,
[D7]With my guitar under my coat,
I hitchhiked [G7sus4]all the way [G7]down to Memphis,
[G7]Got a room at the YMCA,
For the [D7]next three weeks I went huntin' them nights,
[D7]Just lookin' for a place to play,
Well, I [A7]thought my pickin' would set 'em on fire,
But [G7]nobody wanted to hire a guitar [D7]man.[G7]
Verse
Well, I nearly 'bout [D7]starved to death down in Memphis,
[D7]I run outta money and luck,
[D7]So I bummed me a ride down to Macon, Georgia,
[D7]On a overloaded poultry truck,
I thumbed on[G7sus4] down to [G7]Panama City,
[G7]Started pickin' out some of them all night bars,
[D7]Hopin' I could make myself a dollar,
[D7]Makin' music on my guitar,
Got the [A7]same old story at them all night piers,
There [G7]ain't no room around here for a guitar [D7]man
Spoken
N.C.
We don't need a guitar man, son
Verse
[G7]So I slept in the hobo jungles,
[G7]Roamed a thousand miles of track,
Til I [D7]found myself in Mobile Alabama,
[D7]In a club they call Big Jack's,
A little [G7]four-piece band was jammin',
[G7]So I took my guitar and I sat in,
I [E7]showed 'em what a band would sound like,
With a [A7]swingin' little guitar man.
Spoken
N.C.
Show 'em, son
Chorus
If you ever take a [D7]trip down to the ocean,find yourself down around Mobile,
[D7]Make it on out to a club called Jack's, If you got a little time to kill,
Just [G7sus4]follow that [G7]crowd of people,You'll wind up out on his dance floor,
[D7]Diggin' the finest little five-piece group,Up and down the Gulf of Mexico,
[A7]Guess who's leadin' that five-piece band, Well, [G7]wouldn't ya know,
it's that swingin' little guitar [D7][G7]man.[D7]
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