well i quit my job down at the car wash
i left my mama a goodbye note
by sundown i’d left kingston
with my under my coat
i hitchhiked all the way down to memphis
got a room at the ymca
for the next three weeks i went hunting them nights
just looking for a place to play
well i thought my picking would set them on fire
but nobody wanted to hire a man
well i nearly about starved to death down in memphis
i run out to 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 picking out some of them all night bars
hoping i could make myself a dollar
making music on my
i got the same old story at them all night piers
there is no room around here for a man
we don’t need a 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 fourpiece band was jamming
so i took my and i sat in
i showed them what a band would sound like
with a swinging little man
show them son
4
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
digging the finest little fivepiece group
up and down the gulf of mexico
guess who’s leading that fivepiece band
well wouldn’t you know it’s that swinging little man
5
well i came a long way from the car wash
got to where i said i’d get
now that i’m here i know for sure
i really have not got there yet
think i’ll start all over
swing my over my back
i’m going to get myself back on the track
i’ll never never ever look back
i’ll never be more than what i am
wouldn’t you know
i’m a swinging little man
Artist: Elvis Presley
Year: 1968
Decade: 60s
Language: en
Word Count: 188