Guitar Man Chords
by Jerry Reed
Guitar Man by Jerry Reed is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D7, G7sus4, G7, A7 and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
VERSE 1:
D7
Well, I quit my job down at the car wash,
Left my mama a goodbye note,By sundown I'd left Kingston,
With my guitar under my coat,
G7sus4 G7
I hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis,
Got a room at the YMCA,
D7
For the next three weeks I went huntin' them nights,
Just lookin' for a place to play,
A7
Well, I thought my pickin' would set 'em on fire,
G7 D7 G7
But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.
VERSE 2:
D7
Well, I nearly 'bout starved to death down in Memphis,
I run outta money and luck,
So I bummed me a ride down to Macon, Georgia,
On a overloaded poultry truck,
G7sus4 G7
I thumbed on down to Panama City,
Started pickin' out some of them all night bars,
D7
Hopin' I could make myself a dollar,
Makin' music on my guitar,
A7
Got the same old story at them all night piers,
G7 D7
There ain't no room around here for a guitar man
SPOKEN: We don't need a guitar man, son
G7
So I slept in the hobo jungles,
Roamed a thousand miles of track,
D7
Til I found myself in Mobile Alabama,
In a club they call Big Jack's,
G7
A little four-piece band was jammin',
So I took my guitar and I sat in,
E7
I showed 'em what a band would sound like,
A7
With a swingin' little guitar man.
SPOKEN: Show 'em, son
D7
If you ever take a trip down to the ocean,find yourself down around Mobile,
Make it on out to a club called Jack's, If you got a little time to kill,
G7sus4 G7
Just follow that crowd of people,You'll wind up out on his dance floor,
D7
Diggin' the finest little five-piece group,Up and down the Gulf of Mexico,
A7 G7
Guess who's leadin' that five-piece band, Well, wouldn't ya know,
D7 G7 D7
it's that swingin' little guitar man.