[00:06.24]Well I quit my job down at the carwash[00:09.00]I left my mama a goodbye note[00:11.37]By sundown[00:12.54]I'd left Kingston with my guitar under my coat[00:15.72]I hitchhiked all the way down to[00:17.43]Memphis got a room at the[00:20.64]YMCA For the next three weeks[00:21.84]I went a hountin' them night clubs[00:23.34]Lookin' for a place to play[00:25.14]Well I thought my pickin' would set 'em on fire[00:27.66]But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man[00:33.81]Well I nearly bout starved to death down in[00:35.88]Memphis I run out of money and luck[00:39.00]So I bummed me a ride down to[00:40.62]Macon Georgia on a overloaded poultry truck[00:43.38]I thumbed on down to[00:44.49]Panama City started checkin' out some of them all night bars[00:48.69]Hopin' I can make myself a dollar makin' music on my guitar[00:52.83]Got the same old story at them all night piers[00:55.50]There ain't no room around here for a guitar man we don't need a guitar man son[01:02.10]So I slept in the hobo jungles[01:04.62]I bummed a thousand miles of track[01:06.72]Till I found myself in[01:08.16]Mobile Alabama in a club they call[01:10.44]Big Jack's[01:11.49]A little four piece band was jammin' so[01:13.56]I took my guitar and[01:14.91]I sat in I showed 'em what a band would sound like[01:18.51]With a swingin' little guitar man show 'em son [ ac.guitar ][01:45.42]So if you ever take a trip down to the ocean find yourself down round[01:49.53]Mobile Well make it on out to the club called[01:52.71]Jack's if you got a little time to kill[01:55.35]Just follow that crowd of people you'll wind up out on his dance floor[02:00.39]Diggin' the finest little five piece group up and down the[02:03.06]Gulf of Mexico[02:05.04]And guess who's leadin' that five piece band[02:07.41]Why wouldn't you know it's that swingin' little guitar man yeah [ ac.guitar ]