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This job I had one time as a talent scout, hmm.
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I had a hard day at the office and the boss wasn't in town
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The day this hired legged guitar picker just happened to come around
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Well, he walks in my office with a great big grin,    And folks that's where my story really begins
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[Pre Verse]
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[Verse 1]
He said, 'Son my name is Beauregard Rigby.
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I come to you from Tupelo Mississippi.
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I write songs and I sing like a bird,
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I play licks on my guitar like you ain't never heard.
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But I'm down on my luck and things are just a little slack.
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I gotta quarter in my pocket and a shirt on my back.
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But you buy me some supper and give me a place I can sleep
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He said 'I'll sing you some songs that'll knock your hat in the creek.
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I got talent boy. 
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Said back home they call me the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
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[Pre Verse] (Slide Capo up to Fret 1)
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[Verse 2]

Well I knew I was in a room with some kind of a nut
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When he pulled out that pack of used cigarette butts.
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So that's when I told him 'We can't use you today'
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So I handed the boy a dollar and sent him on his way
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Well the boss got back and we both had a laugh
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When I told him 'bout the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
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And pretty soon I had the story circulating around
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About this Mississippi nut that we had in our town.
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I said, 'watch him everybody, the boy's squirrelly!
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He walks around calling himself the Tupelo Mississippi Flash.'
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[Pre Verse] (Slide Capo up to Fret 2)
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Well it happened one day while I was driving to my home
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I just happened to have my car radio on.
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When I heard the jockey raving about a brand new smash
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By a kid called the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
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I almost wrecked my automobile
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I went through red lights, I hit a traffic cop.
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Well my story's got an ending and it's short and sweet
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The boss man he fired me and left me out in the street
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But I got a new job now and I'm as learnin' real fast
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I'm drivin' the bus for the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
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And his Cadillac I'm driving that for him too
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And that yacht he's got.
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And his areo-plane
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Well chauffeur, show good I always say
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Tupelo Mississippi, who-ever heard of it.
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