If you wanna get in trouble let me tell you how to do itGet yourself a guitar and then you're right into itYou play all day and you play all nightPeople say you'll never learn to play the thing rightAlways messing about, groaning at youMoaning, won't let you practiceSo I bought myself a guitar about a year agoThe man said I could learn it in a week or soGave me a little book, pick or twoSaid, Here why'are mate, it's up to youDirty rotter, cost me ten nicker, all the loot I hadGood guitar, though, called it a pluck itAnyway, spent me doughAnd I couldn't let it all go to waste, you knowSo I took the book, guitar and allAnd I went back home where the trees are tallDown in Woodford, good place to be if you've got a guitarPretty rotten if you ain'tWell, for weeks and weeks I worked hardAnd I tried to learn a few main chordsThe book says they're easy as ABCCor, my fingers is killing me, got sore on the endsCouldn't hold the strings downWanted to pack up, cor, I felt roughAnyway, kept on playing with all me mightI could see Mum's hair was turning whiteAnd her face was lined with discontentShe said her patience was pretty near spentShe was nervous, ears ringing, wanted to screamYou know, couldn't get no reliefSo sister, anyway, she took it worst of all'Cause she got married the following fallShe said For love but I got me doubtsI think the guitar chased her outShe's a game girl, thoughJust couldn't take it, you know, limit to everythingDad, he took it a different wayHe said, you can turn your Mum's hair grayDrive your sister away from homeBut you or me boy's gonna start to roamAnd I ain't going, never intend toYou figure it out, so I did, fast, you knowAnyway, next day had me clothes all packedAnd I slung me guitar across me backCaught myself a great long trainSearched the world for me share of fameAin't found none, just hardships, messing aboutSkiffle, Tommy Steele
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