All American Boy
Written and recorded by Bobby Bare
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Gather round cats and I'll tell you a story
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Bout how to become an all American boy
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Buy you a guitar and put it in tune
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You'll be a rocking and a rolling soon
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Impressing the girls picking hot licks and all that jazz
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Ah I bought me a guitar a year ago
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Learned how to play in a day or so
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And all around town it was well understood
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That I was knocking 'em out like Johnny B Goode
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Hot licks showing off ah number one
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Yeah I practiced all day and up into the night
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My papa's hair was turning white
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Cause he didn't like rock'n roll
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He said you can stay boy but that's gotta go
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He's a square he just didn't dig me at all
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So I took my guitar picks and all
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Bid farewell to my poor ol' pa
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Split for Memphis where they say y'all
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Them swinging cats are having a ball
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Sessions hot licks and all they dig me
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I was rocking and a bopping and I was getting the breaks
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The girls all said that I have what it takes
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When up stepped a man with big cigar
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He said come here cat I'm gonna make you a star
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I'll put you on bandstand buy you a Cadillac sign here kid
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I signed my name and became a star
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Having a ball with my guitar
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Driving a big long Cadillac
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And fighting the girls off of my back
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They just kept a coming screaming yeah they liked it
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So I picked my guitar with a great big grin
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And the money just kept on pouring in
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But then one day my Uncle Sam he said (knock knock) here I am
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Uncle Sam needs you boy I'm a gonna cut your hair off
Ah take this rifle kid give me that guitar yeah
