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