All American Boy-Bobby Bare

[ti:All American Boy] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:Detroit City and other hits by Bobby Bare] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]All American Boy - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare) [00:03.79] [00:07.32]Gather round cats and I'll tell you a story [00:10.12]'Bout how to become an all American boy [00:13.65]Buy you a guitar and put it in tune [00:16.41]You'll be a rockin' and a rollin' soon [00:20.48]Impressin' the girls pickin' hot licks and all that jazz [00:26.66] [00:28.83]Ah I bought me a guitar a year ago [00:32.62]Learned how to play in a day or so [00:35.64]And all around town it was well understood [00:38.37]That I was knockin' 'em out like Johnny B Goode [00:42.43]Hot licks showin' off ah number one [00:49.04] [00:50.84]Yeah I practiced all day and up into the night [00:54.74]My papa's hair was turnin' white [00:57.84]'Cause he didn't like rock'n roll [01:00.43]He said ''You can stay boy but that's gotta go '' [01:05.54]He's a square he just didn't dig me at all [01:11.94] [01:13.27]So I took my guitar picks and all [01:16.91]Bid farewell to my poor ol' pa [01:20.25]Split for Memphis where they say y'all [01:22.94]Them swingin' cats are havin' a ball [01:27.37]Sessions hot licks and all they dig me [01:34.72] [01:36.07]I was rockin' and a boppin' and I was gettin' the breaks [01:39.53]The girls all said that I have what it takes [01:42.71]When up stepped a man with big cigar [01:45.28]He said ''Come here cat I'm gonna make you a star [01:50.01]I'll put you on bandstand buy you a Cadillac sign here kid '' [01:57.64] [01:58.81]I signed my name and became a star havin' a ball with my guitar [02:05.63]Drivin' a big long Cadillac and fightin' the girls off of my back [02:12.43]They just kept a comin' a screamin' yeah they liked it [02:19.08] [02:21.18]So I picked my guitar with a great big grin [02:24.55]And the money just kept on pourin' in [02:28.17]But then one day my Uncle Sam he said (bang bang) ''Here I am [02:35.69]Uncle Sam needs you boy I'm a gonna cut your hair off [02:44.59]Ah take this rifle kid give me that guitar yeah '' [02:53.05]