The All American Boy-Bobby Bare

[ti:All American Boy] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:Vintage: Bobby Bare] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]All American Boy - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare) [00:07.65]Gather round cats and I'll tell you a story [00:10.40]'Bout how to become an all American boy [00:14.37]Buy you a guitar and put it in tune [00:17.58]You'll be a rockin' and a rollin' soon [00:20.81] [00:22.25]Impressin' the girls pickin' [00:27.17]Hot licks and all that jazz [00:29.24] [00:31.03]Ah I bought me a guitar a year ago [00:35.00]Learned how to play in a day or so [00:38.43]And all around town it was well understood [00:41.40]That I was knockin' 'em out like Johnny B Goode [00:45.70] [00:46.73]Hot licks showin' off ah number one [00:52.96] [00:55.32]Yeah I practiced all day and up into the night [00:59.56]My papa's hair was turnin' white [01:02.62]'Cause he didn't like rock'n roll [01:05.57]He said ''You can stay boy [01:07.57]But that's gotta go '' [01:10.62]He's a square he just didn't dig me at all [01:17.42] [01:19.50]So I took my guitar picks and all [01:23.62]Bid farewell to my poor ol' pa [01:27.27]Split for Memphis where they say y'all [01:30.11]Them swingin' cats are havin' a ball [01:35.93]Sessions hot licks and all they dig me [01:44.05]I was rockin' and a boppin' [01:46.08]And I was gettin' the breaks [01:48.19]The girls all said that I have what it takes [01:51.47]When up stepped a man with big cigar [01:54.45]He said ''Come here cat [01:56.19]I'm gonna make you a star [01:59.43]I'll put you on bandstand [02:02.39]Buy you a Cadillac sign here kid '' [02:08.69]I signed my name and became a star [02:12.07]Havin' a ball with my guitar [02:15.97]Drivin' a big long Cadillac [02:18.83] [02:19.41]And fightin' the girls off of my back [02:23.32]They just kept a comin' [02:26.63]A screamin' yeah they liked it [02:32.75]So I picked my guitar with a great big grin [02:36.41]And the money just kept on pourin' in [02:40.45]But then one day my Uncle [02:42.75]Sam he said (bang bang) ''Here I am [02:47.93]Uncle Sam needs you boy [02:51.64]I'm a gonna cut your hair off [02:56.65]Ah take this rifle kid give me that guitar yeah ''