I'm gonna tell you a story
that's all about
This job I had one time as a talent scout,
hmm.
I had a hard day at the office and the
boss wasn't in town
The day this hired legged guitar picker
just happened to come around.
Well, he walks in my office with
a great big grin,
And folks that's where
my story really begins.
He said, 'Son my name is
Boregard Rippy.
I come to you from Tupelo Mississippi.
I write songs that'll sing like a bird,
I play licks on my guitar like
you ain't never heard.
But I'm down on my luck and
things are just a little slack.
I gotta quarter in my pocket
and a shirt on my back.
But you buy me some supper and give
me a place I can sleep
He said 'I'll sing you some songs
that'll rock your head to sleep.
I got talent boy. Said back home they call me
the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well I knew I was in a room
with some kind of a nut
When he pulled out that pack
of used cigarette butts.
So that's when I told him
'We can't use you today'
So I handed the boy a dollar
and sent him on his way
Well the boss got back and
we both had a laugh
When I told him 'bout the
Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And pretty soon I had the story
circling around
About this Mississippi nut
that we had in our town.
I said, 'watch him everybody,
the boy's squirrelly!
He walks around calling himself the Tupelo
Mississippi
Flash.'
Well it happened one day while
I was driving to my home
I just happened to have
my car radio on.
When I heard the jockey raving
about a brand new smash
By a kid called the Tupelo
Mississippi Flash
I almost wrecked my automobile
I went through a red light
I hit the traffic cop....Why??
Well my story's got an ending
and it's short and sweet
The boss man he fired me and
left me out in the street
But I got a new job now and
I'm as learnin' real fast
I'm drivin' the bus for
the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And his Cadillac I'm
driving that for him too
And that yacht he's got.
And is there a plane??
Well chauffeur, chauffeur I hear him say
Tupelo Mississippi,