The All-American Boy-Bill Parsons

[ti:The All-American Boy] [ar:Bill Parsons] [al:Buddies With the Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.48]The All-American Boy - Bill Parsons [00:01.46]Written by：Parsons/Lunsford [00:01.74] [00:12.76]Gather 'round cats [00:14.05]And I'll tell you a story [00:15.80]About how to become an all American boy [00:18.36] [00:19.01]Buy you a gittar and put it in tune [00:22.68]You'll be rockin' and rollin' soon [00:24.99] [00:26.64]Impressin' the girls [00:27.80] [00:29.50]Pickin' [00:29.70] [00:32.03]Hot licks [00:32.35] [00:35.01]I I bought me a gittar a year ago [00:37.86] [00:39.03]Learned how to play in a day or so [00:41.07] [00:42.06]And all around town it was well understood [00:44.84]That I was knockin' 'em out like Johnny B Goode [00:47.33] [00:57.61]Well I'd practice all day and up into the night [01:00.54] [01:01.58]My papa's hair was turnin' white [01:03.64] [01:04.89]'Cause he didn't like rock'n'roll [01:07.35]He said [01:07.61] [01:08.18]You can stay boy [01:09.33]But that's gotta go [01:10.29] [01:12.63]He's a square [01:13.62] [01:15.68]He just didn't dig me at all [01:17.06] [01:20.76]So I took my gittar [01:22.69]Picks and all [01:23.68] [01:24.53]And bid farewell to my poor ole pa [01:26.82] [01:27.81]And I split for Memphis where they say all [01:30.62] [01:31.30]Them swingin' cats are havin' a ball [01:33.58] [01:41.70]Hot licks and all [01:42.47] [01:44.10]They dig me [01:44.60]I was rockin' and boppin' and it's a gettin' the breaks [01:46.75] [01:47.69]The girls all said that I had what it takes [01:50.12] [01:50.99]When up stepped a man with a big cigar [01:53.98]He said come here [01:55.17]Cat I'm gonnna make you a star [01:56.59] [01:58.74]I'll put you on bandstand [01:59.84] [02:02.75]Buy ya a Cadillac [02:03.51] [02:04.95]Sign here [02:05.47] [02:07.60]I signed my name and became a star [02:10.18] [02:11.27]Havin' a ball with my gittar [02:13.25] [02:14.48]Driving a big long Cadillac and fightin' the girls off ma back [02:20.13] [02:21.38]All they kept a'comin' [02:22.49] [02:24.29]Screamin' [02:24.65] [02:26.57]Yeah they like it [02:27.68] [02:30.53]So I'd pick my gittar with a great big grin [02:34.01]And the money just kept on pourin' in [02:36.61] [02:37.92]But then one day my uncle Sam [02:40.47]He said [02:40.98] [02:42.91]Here I am [02:43.56] [02:45.23]Uncle Sam needs you boy [02:46.72] [02:49.11]I'm a gonna cut your hair [02:51.50]Ah take [02:51.80] [02:53.89]That all [02:54.21] [02:55.51]Give me that gittar [02:56.21] [02:59.16]Take this your ruffle kid [03:00.06] [03:01.92]Give your rock watchin' the boy