guitar man

• elvis presley şarkısı;
  
  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 huntin' them nights,
  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 bought me a ride down to macon, georgia,
  on a overloaded poultry truck,
  i thumbed on down to panama city,
  started pickin' 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
  
  if you ever take a trip down to the ocean,
  find yourself down around mobile,
  make it on out to a club called jack's,
  if you got a little time to kill,
  just follow that crowd of people,
  you'll wind up out on his dance floor,
  diggin' the finest little five-piece group,
  up and down the gulf of mexico,
  guess who's leadin' that five-piece band,
  well, wouldn't ya know, it's that swingin' little guitar man.
• neşeli bir shuffle
• 1972 tarihli bread şarkısı^*.. üf üf.. nakaratı beklenir.. orayı duymak için başlanır dinlenmeye.. sonra da erimeye..
  
  who draws the crowd and plays so loud,
  baby it's the guitar man.
  who's gonna steal the show, you know
  baby it's the guitar man,
  
  he can make you love, he can make you cry
  he will bring you down, then he'll get you high
  somethin' keeps him goin', miles and miles a day
  to find another place to play.
  
  night after night who treats you right,
  baby it's the guitar man
  who's on the radio, you go listen
  to the guitar man
  
  then he comes to town, and you see his face,
  and you think you might like to take his place
  somethin' keeps him driftin' miles and miles away
  searchin' for the songs to play.
  
  then you listen to the music and you like to sing along,
  you want to get the meaning out of each and every song
  then you find yourself a message and some words to call your own
  and take them home.
  
  he can make you love, he can get you high
  he will bring you down, then he'll make you cry
  somethin' keeps him movin', but no one seems to know
  what it is that makes him go.
  
  then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
  the voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
  but he never seems to notice he's just got to find
  another place to play,
  anyway got to play, anyway got to play...
• jj cale albumu ve albume ismini veren parca.
  
  1 death in the wilderness (cale) 4:58
  2 it's hard to tell (cale) 2:39
  3 days go by (cale) 3:27
  4 low down (cale) 2:48
  5 this town (cale) 2:53
  6 guitar man (cale) 4:01
  7 if i had a rocket (cale) 3:01
  8 perfect woman (cale) 2:10
  9 old blue (traditional) 2:42
  10 doctor told me (cale) 3:12
  11 miss ol' st. louie (cale) 2:32
  12 nobody knows (cale) 3:52
• (bkz: the guitar man)
• j j cale şarkısının sözleri de şöyle:
  guitar man, tell me what your secret am
  tell me please, can you put my mind at ease
  when you're standing in the spotlight
  with all the girls around
  i was wondering how you do it
  how you make that sound, guitar man
  tell me what your secret am
  tell me please, can you put my mind at ease
  your fingers move so swiftly
  across those silver strings
  it looks so nice and easy
  how you make it sing, guitar man
  tell me what your secret am
  tell me please, can you put my mind at ease
  guitar man, in a guitar jam
  playing low, playing slow
  playing loud, working the crowd
  playing high, you seem to fly
  guitar man, tell me what your secret am
  uh, hey man, have you seen my stratocaster
  hand me that gibson over there, will you
  let my try your martin, man
  do you mind
  plug it in that marshall
  turn it up a little bit louder