I'm gonna tell you a story that's all about
This job I had one time as a talent scout, hmm
I had a hard day in Delphis and the boss wasn't in town
The day this hired legged guitar picker just happened to come around
When he walks in .... with his great big grin
And folks, that's where my story really begins

He said: Son my name is Boregard Rippy
I come to you from Tupelo Mississippi
I write songs that I'll sing like a bird
I play licks on my guitar like you ain't never heard

But I'm down on my luck and things are just a little slack
I gotta quarter in my pocket and a shirt on my back
You buy me some supper and give me a place I can sleep
I'll sing you some songs that'll rock your head on the .....

I got talent boy
Said back home they call me
The Tupelo Mississippi Flash, yeah

Well, I knew I was in a room with some kind of a nut
When he pulled out that pack of used cigarette butts
So that's when I told him, we can't use you today
So I handed the boy a dollar and sent him on his way

Well, the boss got back and we both had a laugh 
When I told him 'bout the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And pretty soon I had the story circling around
About this Mississippi nut that we had in our town

I said: watch him everybody
The boy's squirrelly
He walks around calling himself
The Tupelo Mississippi Flash

Well, it happened one day while I was driving to my home
I just happened to have my car radio on
When I heard the jockey raving about a brand new smash 
By a kid that called the Tupelo Mississippi Flash

Well, I almost wrecked my automobile
I went through red lights
I hit a traffic cop

Well, my story's got an ending and it's short and sweet
You know, the boss man he fired me and left me out in the street
But I got a new job now and I'm learning real fast
I'm a-driving the bus for the Tupelo Mississippi Flash

And his Cadillac
I'm driving that for him too
And that yacht he's got
And a big flat airoplane
Oh, chauffeur, show good I always say
Tupelo Mississippi, who ever heard of that?