Key: D
Introduction:
D7
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Well, I quit my job down at the car wash,
D7
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I left my Mama a goodbye note.
D7
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By sundown I'd left Kingston
D7
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with my guitar under my coat.
G7(4) G7
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I hitch-hiked all the way down to Memphis.
G7
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Got a room at the Y. M. C. A.
D7
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For the next three weeks
D7
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looking for a place to play.
A7
-7b -7b -7b -7b -7b -7b
Well I thought my picking
A7
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would set 'em on fire
G7
6 7 7 6 6 6 -5
but nobody wanted to
G7 D7 G7 D7
5 4 4 5b 4 4
hire a Guitar Man.
G7
-6 -6 -6 -6 -6 -5 -5 5b 4
So I slept in the hobo jungles,
G7
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I bummed a thousand mies of track
D7
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'til I found myself in Mobile, Al - a - bam - a
D7
6 6 6 6 6 6 4
in a club they call "Big Jack's."
G7
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A little four piece band was jamming
G7
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so I took my guitar and I sat in-
E7
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I showed 'em what a band would sound like
A7
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with a swinging little Guitar man.
A7
6 6 6
Show 'em son. (Instrumental)
D7 G7 D7
Guitar Man.