The guitar-Guy Clark

[ti:The Guitar] [ar:Guy Clark] [al:Guy Clark: The Best of the Dualtone Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The guitar - Guy Clark [00:20.51]Well I was passing by a pawn shop [00:23.54]In an older part of town [00:25.15] [00:25.73]Something caught my eye [00:28.09]And I stopped and turned around [00:30.41] [00:30.93]I stepped inside and there I spied [00:33.54]In the middle of it all [00:35.57]Was a beat up old guitar [00:37.95] [00:38.64]Hanging on the wall [00:39.67] [00:40.74]What do you want for that piece of junk [00:43.25]I asked the old man [00:45.22] [00:46.10]He just smiled and took it down [00:48.25]And he put it in my hand [00:50.04] [00:50.69]He said you tell me what it's worth [00:52.86] [00:53.38]You're the one who wants it [00:55.67]Turn it up play a song [00:57.97]And let's just see what haunts it [01:00.16] [01:05.59]So I hit a couple of cords [01:07.23]In my old country way of strumming [01:09.98] [01:10.65]And then my fingers turned to lightning [01:12.62]Man I never heard it coming [01:15.80]It was like I always knew it [01:18.12]I just don't know where I learned it [01:20.56] [01:21.11]It wasn't nothing but the truth [01:22.88]So I just reared back and burned it [01:26.08] [02:05.12]Well I lost all track of time [02:07.81]There was nothing I couldn't pick [02:09.98]Up and down the neck [02:11.83]I never missed a lick [02:14.05] [02:14.76]The guitar almost played itself [02:16.55] [02:17.07]There was nothing I could do [02:18.67] [02:19.74]It was getting hard to tell [02:21.55]Just who was playing who [02:23.29] [02:29.65]When I finally put it down [02:31.02] [02:32.25]I couldn't catch my breath [02:34.73]My hands were shaking [02:36.34]And I was scared to death [02:38.83] [02:39.58]The old man finally got up [02:41.90]Said where in the hell you been [02:43.92] [02:44.67]I've been waiting all these years [02:46.97]For you to stumble in [02:49.48]Then he took down an old dusty case [02:51.60]Said go on and pack it up [02:53.75] [02:54.73]You don't owe me nothing [02:57.31]And then he said good luck [02:59.24]There was something spooky in his voice [03:01.95]And something strange on his face [03:04.35]When he shut the lid [03:06.38]I saw my name was on the case