i m gonna tell you a story that s all about this job i had one time as a talent scout hmm i had a hard day at the office and the boss wasn t in town the day this hired legged guitar picker just happened to come around well he walks in my office with a great big grin and folks that s where my story really begins he said son my name is boregard rippy i come to you from tupelo mississippi i write songs that ll sing like a bird i play licks on my guitar like you ain t never heard but i m down on my luck and things are just a little slack i gotta quarter in my pocket and a shirt on my back but you buy me some supper and give me a place i can sleep he said i ll sing you some songs that ll rock your head to sleep i got talent boy said back home they call me the tupelo mississippi flash well i knew i was in a room with some kind of a nut when he pulled out that pack of used cigarette butts so that s when i told him we can t use you today so i handed the boy a dollar and sent him on his way well the boss got back and we both had a laugh when i told him bout the tupelo mississippi flash and pretty soon i had the story circling around about this mississippi nut that we had in our town i said watch him everybody the boy s squirrelly he walks around calling himself the tupelo mississippi flash well it happened one day while i was driving to my home i just happened to have my car radio on when i heard the jockey raving about a brand new smash by a kid called the tupelo mississippi flash i almost wrecked my automobile i went through a red light i hit the traffic cop why well my story s got an ending and it s short and sweet the boss man he fired me and left me out in the street but i got a new job now and i m as learnin real fast i m drivin the bus for the tupelo mississippi flash and his cadillac i m driving that for him too and that yacht he s got and is there a plane well chauffeur chauffeur i hear him say tupelo mississippi who ever heard of it 