Lyr Req: Tennessee Flat Top Box (Johnny Cash)

20 May 02 - 01:23 PM (#713978)
Subject: Tennessee Flat Top Box
From: GUEST,[e-mail]

I'm simply trying to find the lyrics to this song and can't find them in the database. I heard Lyle Lovett play it at a tribute to Johnny Cash concert three years ago. He played just this one song and other musicians including Dave Mathews played at the concert as well. More ambitiously I'd like to find a recording of that concert and Lovett's particular recording which was truly brilliant.

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20 May 02 - 01:43 PM (#713994)
Subject: Lyr Add: TENNESSEE FLAT-TOP BOX (Johnny Cash)
From: Justa Picker

TENNESSEE FLAT-TOP BOX
Words and music by Johnny Cash
As recorded by Johnny Cash on "Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash" (1963)

In a little cabaret in a South Texas border town
Sat a boy and his guitar and the people came from all around,
And all the girls from there to Austin
Were slippin' 'way from home and puttin' jewelry in hock
To take a trip to go and listen
To the little dark-haired boy who played the Tennessee flat-top box.
And he would play—

Well, he couldn't ride or wrangle and he never cared to make a dime
But give him his guitar and he'd be happy all the time,
And all the girls from nine to ninety
Were snappin' fingers, tappin' toes and beggin' him don't stop,
And hypnotized and fascinated
By the little dark-haired boy that played the Tennessee flat-top box.
And he would play—

Then one day he was gone and no one ever saw him 'round.
He vanished like the breeze they forget him in the little town,
But all the girls still dreamed about him
And hung around the cabaret until the doors were locked,
And then one day on the Hit Parade
Was the little dark-haired boy that played the Tennessee flat-top box.
And he would play—

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20 May 02 - 02:22 PM (#714026)
Subject: RE: Tennessee Flat Top Box
From: Mountain Dog

Try here, too, for lyrics and chords. For future reference, the Cowpie Bunkhouse is a great archive for C&W tunes.

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