Elvis Presley - Guitar Man - alt. take 1 Lyrics

Lyrics Guitar Man - alt. take 1 - Elvis Presley



If you're looking for trouble
You came to the right place
If you're looking for trouble
Just look right in my face
I was born standing up
And talking back
My daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack
Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery
Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me
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
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, yeah yeah



Writer(s): J. Hubbard


Elvis Presley - Today, Tomorrow & Forever
Album Today, Tomorrow & Forever
date of release
07-06-2002

1 Hound Dog (Live)
2 I'm Yours (Take 5)
3 Indescribably Blue (Take 1)
4 Roustabout (Take 8)
5 They Remind Me Too Much of You (Take 4)
6 I Got a Feeling In My Body (Take 4)
7 Hurt (Take 5)
8 U.S. Male (Take 7)
9 We Call On Him (Take 8)
10 You Don't Know Me (Movie Version Take 3)
11 The Love Machine (Take 3)
12 This Is My Heaven (Take 7)
13 Young and Beautiful (Takes 4 & 5)
14 Treat Me Nice (Take 6)
15 Witchcraft (Take 3)
16 There's Always Me (Take 2)
17 Swing Down, Sweet Chariot (Takes 2 & 3)
18 Stay Away (Take 14)
19 Long Legged Girl (Alternate Master)
20 Love Letters (Take 2)
21 Never Say Yes (Takes 1 & 2)
22 My Desert Serenade (Take 7)
23 Loving You (Fast Version / Take 6)
24 Money Honey (Live)
25 Long Tall Sally (Live)
26 Puppet On a String (Take 10)
27 Please Don't Stop Loving Me (Take 10)
28 Make Me Know It (Takes 17 & 18)
29 I Want to Be Free (Takes 3 & 4)
30 I Beg of You (Take 5)
31 I Got a Woman (Live)
32 I Was the One (Live)
33 Heartbreak Hotel (Live)
34 I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (Take 13)
35 I Need Your Love Tonight (Take 4)
36 I Got Stung (Take 16)
37 King of the Whole Wide World (Take 3)
38 Come What May (Takes 3 & 4)
39 Gonna Get Back Home Somehow (Take 2)
40 Can't Help Falling In Love (Take 26)
41 Flaming Star (Takes 4 & 1)
42 G.I. Blues (Take 5)
43 Follow That Dream (Take 3)
44 (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley (For Me) (Take 1)
45 Blue Suede Shoes (Live)
46 Ask Me (Take 2)
47 A Boy Like Me, a Girl Like You (Take 4)
48 Anything That's Part of You (Take 8)
49 Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Takes 1 & 2)
50 If the Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side (Take 4)
51 Don't Forbid Me / You Belong to My Heart
52 A Thing Called Love (Rehearsal)
53 Fools Rush In (Take 9)
54 Until It's Time for You to Go (Take 5)
55 I'll Be Home On Christmas Day (Take 9)
56 Rip It Up (Take 14)
57 Harbor Lights - alt. take 3
58 Shake, Rattle And Roll - alt. take 2
59 Is It So Strange (Take 10)
60 Got A Lot O' Livin' to Do - Movie Master Take 17
61 Steadfast, Loyal And True - undubbed master
62 Doncha' Think It's Time (Take 48)
63 The Fool - alt. take 1
64 Pocketful of Rainbows - Take 3
65 Lonely Man (Solo / Take 1)
66 Mexico - alt. take 2
67 Today, Tomorrow and Forever (Duet Version / Take 2)
68 Hide Thou Me (Home Recording)
69 Big Boss Man (Take 9)
70 Wonderful World (Take 15)
71 Guitar Man - alt. take 1
72 Where Could I Go But To The Lord (with The Blossoms) - alt. take 4
73 Memories - stereo master
74 Almost - alt. take 6
75 True Love Travels On A Gravel Road - alt. take 2
76 Let Us Pray (Alternate Master)
77 Baby What You Want Me To Do - Live at The International Hotel, Las Vegas, NV - 8/22/69 Midnight Show
78 Funny How Time Slips Away (with The Sweet Inspirations & The Imperials Quartet) - previously unreleased live
79 Runaway - Live at The International Hotel, Las Vegas, NV - 8/22/69 Midnight Show
80 What'd I Say - Live at The International Hotel, Las Vegas, NV - 8/22/69 Midnight Show
81 See See Rider (with The Sweet Inspirations & The Imperials Quartet) - previously unreleased live
82 Walk A Mile In My Shoes (with The Sweet Inspirations & The Imperials Quartet) - previously unreleased live
83 The Next Step Is Love - alt. take 6
84 Life - alt. take 2
85 Snowbird - alt. take 2
86 That's What You Get for Lovin' Me (Takes 9 & 10)
87 Where Do I Go from Here (Take 5)
88 No More (Take 1)
89 Take Good Care Of Her (with J.D. Sumner & The Stamps) - alt. take 3
90 I Miss You (with Voice) - alt. take 1
91 Promised Land (Take 2)
92 Your Love's Been A Long Time Coming (with J.D. Sumner & The Stamps) - alt. take 10
93 Pieces Of My Life (with Voice) - alt. take 1
94 For The Heart (with J.D. Sumner & The Stamps) - alt. take 4
95 She Thinks I Still Care (with Myrna Smith, Kathy Westmoreland, J.D. Sumner & The Stamps) - alt. take 10




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