Guitarman Lyrics - Jesus And Mary Chain

Well I quit my job down at the carwash 

Left my mother a goodbye note 

By sundown I left kingston with my guitar under my coat 

Hitchiked all the way down to memphis 

Got a room at the ymca 

For the next three weeks went hunting at nights 

Just looking for a place to play 

Well I thought my picking would set them on fire 

But nobody wanted to hire a guitarman 

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Well I nearly starved to death down in memphis 

I run out of money and luck 

So I bummed me a ride down to mecon, georgia 

On an overloaded poultry truck 

Thumbed on down to panama city 

Started picking at some of them all night bars 

Hoping I could make myself a dollar making music on my guitar 

Got the same old story the moment I'd appear 

There ain't room around here for a guitarman 

Don't need a guitarman son 

So I slept in the hobo jungles 

I roamed thousand miles of track 

Till I find myself in mobile, alabama 

At a club they call big jacks 

A little four piece band was jamming 

So I took my guitar and I sat in 

I showed em what a band would sound like 

With a swinging little guitarman 

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Show em son 

If you ever take a trip down to the ocean 

Find yourself down around mobile 

Make it on out to a club called jacks 

If you got a little time to kill 

Just follow that crowd of people 

You'll wind up out on his dance floor 

Digging the finest little five piece group 

Up and down the gulf of mexico 

Guess who's leading that five piece band 

Wouldn't you know it's that swinging little guitarman 

He was a degenerates degenerate