That Old Beat-up Guitar Lyrics - Jerry Jeff Walker

Well I found her in a pawnshop 

somewhere up in Ohio 

where I guess some rounder came up short 

and he had to let her go 

cost me ninety dollars 

but she's worth much more by far 

cause I never had a better friend 

than that old beat up guitar 

She didn't look like too much 

just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe 

but a lady has never faired as well 

who'd traveled through so much 

She picked up the name of Angel 

in an old New Orleans bar 

where a drunken poet drew one 

on the top of that guitar 

old Babe Stovally marked her 

scratched the song right out of his heart 

seems everyone who used her 

scarred that old beat up guitar 

She didn't look like too much 

just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe 

but a lady has never faired as well 

who'd traveled through so much 

She traveled with me always 

through the alleys and bars 

songs I sang and friends I knew 

were part of that guitar 

at nights it was my pillow 

sleeping underneath the stars 

day and night I stayed alive 

with that old beat up guitar 

She didn't look like too much 

just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe 

but a lady has never faired as well 

who'd traveled through so much 

Yeah a ramblin man he has his troubles 

hanging on to all that he owns 

after many years of travelin' 

that guitar fell by the road 

then one night in New Mexico 

I stumbled into this bar 

Angel laid there smilin' 

on that old beat up guitar 

Well I took her from the wall 

ran my hands across the scars 

played again the old songs 

that were written on that guitar 

friends I've loved and lost 

many nights inside of a bar 

came back so clearly singing with 

that old beat up guitatr 

She didn't look like too much 

just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe 

but a lady has never faired as well 

who'd traveled through so much 

Now she travels with me always 

through the alleys and bars 

songs I sing and friends I know 

they are a part of that guitar 

at nights it is my pillow 

sleeping underneath the stars 

day and night I stayed alive 

with that old beat up guitar 

She didn't look like too much 

just a Roy Smeck Stage Deluxe 

but a lady has never faired as well 

who'd traveled through so much