{title: Guitar man}
{artist: Elvis Presley}
{time: 4/4}
{tempo: 117}
{key: D}
{meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06}
{meta: url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJ-cSUK154}
{start_of_part: Intro}
[D7]
[D] [-] [G7] [-] [Ab] [-] [A7]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 1}
Well, I quit my [D]job down at the car wash, left my [D7]mama a goodbye note,
By [D]sundown I'd left Kingston, with my [D7]guitar under my coat,
I hitchhiked [G]all the way down to Memphis, got a room at the [G7]YMCA,
For the [D]next three weeks I went huntin' them nights, just [D7]lookin' for a place to play,
Well, I [A7]thought my pickin' would set 'em on fire but [G7]nobody wanted to hire a guitar man
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{start_of_part: Link}
[D7]
[D] [-] [G7] [-] [Ab] [-] [A7]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 2}
Well, I nearly 'bout [D]starved to death down in Memphis, I [D7]run outta money and luck,
So I [D]bought me a ride down to Macon, Georgia on a [D7]overloaded poultry truck,
I thumbed on [G]down to Panama City, started pickin' out [G7]some o' them all night bars,
[D]Hopin' I could make myself a dollar, makin' [D7]music on my guitar,
I got the [A7]same old story at them all night piers,
There [G7]ain't no room around here for a guitar [D]man, we don't need a guitar man, son
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{start_of_part: Bridge}
So I [G]slept in the hobo jungles, roamed a [G7]thousand miles of track,
Till I [D]found myself in Mobile Alabama at a [D7]club they call Big Jack's,
A little [G]four-piece band was jammin', so I took my [G7]guitar and I sat in,
I [E7]showed 'em what a band would sound like, with a [A7]swingin' little guitar man
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{start_of_part: Solo}
[D7] [G7] [D7]
[D7] [G7] [D7]
[A7] [G7] [D7]
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{start_of_verse: Verse 3}
If you ever take a [D]trip down to the ocean, find your[D7]self down around Mobile,
[D]Make it on out to a club called Jack's if you [D7]got a little time to kill,
Just [G]follow that crowd of people, you'll wind up [G7]out on his dance floor,
[D]Diggin' the finest little five-piece group, up and [D7]down the Gulf of Mexico,
[A7]Guess who's leadin' that five-piece band,
Well, [G7]wouldn't ya know, it's that swingin' little guitar man.
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{start_of_part: Solo, fade}
[D7] [G7] [D7]
[D7] [G7] [D7]
[A7] [G7] [D7]
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