Chords for Steve Gibbons Band – Tupelo Mississippi Flash - BBC ‘Sight and Sound’, Nov 1977

_ _ _ _ I'd love to tell you this story.
_ _ I've got to tell you this story. _ _
The [Ab] job I had one time was a talent [G] scout.
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_ _ I'd had [D] a hard day in office.
Boss wasn't in town.
_ [Em] _ _ _ That was a day that's hard looking guitar [Gm] picker happened to come around.
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He walks in my office [G] and he's got a great big green.
And _ folks, that's where the story really [Bb] begins. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ Tupelo, Mississippi, _ _ _ _ Flash.
That's what he said.
I said, what?
He said, Tupelo, _ _ _ Mississippi, _ _ _ Flash.
_ I said, what's your real name son?
Where _ _ you coming from?
_ _ [Gm] Can you do it?
Could you get through it?
_ Can you rock, can you roll, can you really, really, really do it?
And what's he say?
_ _ He said, _ _ _ my _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] name is Bozard Redley.
[C] I come from the youth of Tupelo, Mississippi.
[D] I write songs, sing [G] like a bird, make licks on my oak.
I like to nibble in my hair, but I don't count them alone.
Things are getting slapped [C] out of order in my pocket, but sure enough, it all goes.
I'm [A] a sum shover, give me a place I can sleep.
[G] I'll sing you a song like a hat ride up a [C] creek.
I got talent, boy.
[B] They call me, [D] call me the Tupelo, Mississippi, Flash.
[C] Well, _ [Ab] _ _ [Abm] I just knew I was in a room with [Ab] some kind of a nut.
[Db] He pulled out a pack of used cigarette butts.
[Eb] That's when I told him, we can't use you today.
[Ab] I have them for a dollar, Santa won us red.
We both had a laugh, [Db] I told him, I'm a Tupelo, Mississippi, [Eb] Flash.
Heard us in a hammer store, circling around, [Ab] I'm a Mississippi nut.
Here and out [Db] now, watch it.
He sweared [Eb] it, watch, I am calling himself the Tupelo, Mississippi, [Gb] Flash. _
[Db] _ _ [A] _ _ [A] You know, I have a woman, I was driving to my home.
[D] I happened to have the car ready to go.
[E] Heard a jock driving by in a brand new smash.
[A] About his kid, called him Tupelo, Mississippi, [Bm] Flash.
I almost wrecked the automobile car.
[E] Went clean in the red light.
I hit the traffic cop.
It was so absurd, it just flew.
My, my, this is [Cm] what I heard. _
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_ _ [A] _ _ _ This story got an end and it's short and sweet.
[D] The bossman fired me, let me out in the street.
[B] I got a new job now, and I'm a learning fast.
[Eb] I'm on that bus for the Tupelo, [A] Mississippi, Flash.
And his [D] Cadillac, I'm driving that one too.
[E] And the love he's got, [A] I deserve it for him.
_ _ [D] Choke her, choke her down, he said.
[E] Tupelo, Mississippi, Flash.
[A] _ _
Oh [D] yes, I'm gonna get that hot wheel, I'm gonna ride, ride, [E] ride.
I'm gonna surrender, I'm gonna [A] smile, it's alright.
You [D] know, they call that rock all day, I'm gonna roll all [E] night.
I said, I'm gonna roll music, I'm gonna sing, it's [A] alright.
_ _ [D] _ _ Down [E] south, I said, watch it boy, watch your [A] mouth, it's alright.
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Tupelo, _ [E] _ _ _ [A] Mississippi, Flash.
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