All American Boy Song Lyrics and Chords by Bobby Bare
All American Boy
Written and Recorded by Bobby Bare
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Gather round cats and I'll
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tell you a story
Bout
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how to become an all American
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boy
Buy you a guitar and
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put it in tune
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You'll be a rocking and a rolling
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soon
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Impressing the girls picking hot
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licks and all that
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jazz
Ah I bought me a guitar a
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year
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Learned
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how to play in a day or
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so
And all around town it was
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well
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I was knocking 'em out like Johnny B
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Goode
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Hot licks showing
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off ah number
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one
Yeah I practiced all day and
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up into the night
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My papa's hair was turning
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white
Cause he didn't like
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rock'n
roll
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He said you can stay boy but that's
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gotta
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He's a square he
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just didn't dig me at
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all
So I took my guitar
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picks and all
Bid
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farewell to my poor ol'
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pa
Split for Memphis where
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they say y'all
Them
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swinging cats are having a
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ball
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Sessions hot
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licks and all they dig
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me
I was rocking and a bopping and I was
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getting the breaks
The
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girls all said that I have what it
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takes
When up stepped a man
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with big cigar
He
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said come here cat I'm gonna make you a
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star
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I'll put you on bandstand
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buy you a Cadillac
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sign here kid
I signed my name and
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became a star
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Having a ball with my gui
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tar
Driving a big long
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Cadillac
And
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fighting the girls off of my
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back
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They just kept a coming
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screaming yeah
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they liked it
So I picked my guitar
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with a great big grin
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the money just kept on
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pouring
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But then one day my
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Uncle Sam he said (
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knock knock) here I am
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Uncle Sam needs you boy I'm a
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gonna cut your hair off
Ah take this rifle kid give me that guitar yeah
FAQ
Who sang the the song All American Boy?
- The song All American Boy was sang by Bobby Bare.
Who is Bobby Bare?
- Robert Joseph Bare Sr. (born April 7, 1935) is an American country music singer and songwriter, best known for the songs "Marie Laveau", "Detroit City" and "500 Miles Away from Home". He is the father of Bobby Bare Jr., also a musician.
