Jerry Reed - Guitar Man 1978

Jerry Reed Guitar Man Live Video 1978 https://whentcowboysings.com/jerry-reed-guitar-man-pop/ Jerry Reed Guitar Man Lyrics Well, I quit my job down at the car wash 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 a hauntin' them nightclubs Just lookin' for a place to play Well, I thought my pickin' would set 'em on fire But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man Well, I nearly 'bout starved to death down in Memphis I run outta money and luck So I bummed me a ride down to Macon, Georgia On a overloaded poultry truck I thumbed on down to Panama City Started checkin' out some o' them all night bars Hopin' I could make myself a dollar Makin' music on my guitar I got the same old story at them all night piers There ain't no room around here for a guitar man We don't need a guitar man, son 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 jammin' So I took my guitar and I sat in I showed 'em what a band would sound like With a swingin' little guitar man Show 'em, son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNKAJqVDBPU