All American Boy

[ti:All American Boy] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:Old School Country Classics: The 1950's, Vol. 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.41]All American Boy - The Hit Crew [00:01.57] [00:06.82]Gather 'round cats and I'll tell you a story [00:09.51]About how to become an All American Boy [00:12.08] [00:12.97]Buy you a guitar and put it in tune [00:15.40] [00:16.52]You'll be rockin' and rollin' soon [00:18.51] [00:20.63]Impressin' the girls [00:21.26] [00:23.00]Pickin' hot licks and all that jazz [00:25.78] [00:28.29]I-I bought me a guitar a year ago [00:30.88] [00:31.92]Learned how to play in a day or so [00:34.04] [00:35.04]And all around town it was well understood [00:37.81]That I was knockin' 'em out like Johnny B Goode [00:40.43] [00:42.52]Hot licks showin' off ah number one [00:47.59] [00:50.40]Well I'd practice all day and up into the night [00:53.27] [00:53.94]My papa's hair was turnin' white [00:56.33] [00:57.31]'Cause he didn't like rock'n'roll [00:59.27] [00:59.88]He said "You can stay boy but that's gotta go " [01:02.61] [01:04.44]He's a square he just didn't dig me at all [01:09.42] [01:12.61]So I took my guitar picks and all [01:15.55] [01:16.27]And bid farewell to my poor ole pa [01:18.70] [01:19.55]And I split for Memphis where they say all [01:21.99]Them swingin' cats are havin' a ball [01:24.85] [01:26.96]Sessions hot licks and all they dig me [01:32.63] [01:34.84]I was rockin' and boppin' [01:36.09]And I was gettin' the breaks [01:37.39] [01:38.18]The girls all said that I had what it takes [01:40.61] [01:41.34]When up stepped a man with a big cigar [01:43.59] [01:44.13]He said "come here cat [01:45.41]I'm gonnna make you a star " [01:46.82] [01:48.73]"I'll put you on Bandstand [01:49.73] [01:51.32]Buy ya a Cadillac sign here kid " [01:54.86] [01:56.83]I signed my name and became a star [01:59.56] [02:00.49]Havin' a ball with my guitar [02:02.37] [02:03.63]Driving a big long Cadillac [02:05.79] [02:06.95]And fightin' the girls off my back [02:08.94] [02:10.97]They just kept a'comin' screamin' [02:13.74] [02:15.08]Yeah they like it [02:16.96] [02:18.97]So I'd pick my guitar with a great big grin [02:21.65] [02:22.16]And the money just kept on pourin' in [02:24.81] [02:25.63]But then one day my Uncle Sam [02:27.90] [02:28.44]He said "Here I am" [02:31.03] [02:33.46]"Uncle Sam needs you boy [02:34.94] [02:38.78]I'm-a gonna cut your hair [02:39.72] [02:42.51]Ah Take this rifle kid [02:43.90] [02:46.25]Gimme that guitar" yeah