This Guitar Is For Sale Song Lyrics and Chords by Bobby Bare
This Guitar Is For Sale
Recorded by Bobby Bare
Written by Shel Silverstein and Fred Koller
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This
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guitar is for
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sale
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I'll let her go
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cheap
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She's
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pretty to
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look at but she don't earn her
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keep
She can
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roar like the
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west wind
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she can weep she can
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wail
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But the
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tunes that she
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plays just ain't selling today
This guitar is for
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sale
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She lay close
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beside me on cold winter
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nights
She's got me in
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trouble and she won me some
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fights
We both come out all right
She knows all the
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sad songs
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that Hank ever
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wrote
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Just
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touch her once
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gently and she'll take you on
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home
She'll
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tell you some
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stories
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'bout junk yards and
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jails
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And a
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fool with a
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song and a
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dream that went
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wrong
This guitar is for
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sale
She's rode cross this
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country on freight trains and
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trucks
On 'round pawnshop
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windows when we're down on our
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luck
We been down on our luck
So please treat her
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kind
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keep her out of the
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rain
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It's
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funny you're
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asking I never gave her a
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name
But if
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you say she looks
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weary
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you been reading our
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mail
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you got the
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dough buddy
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take her and
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go
This guitar is for
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sale
She's won me some
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ladies with her sweet loving
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songs
And she's stuck right here
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with me when the ladies were
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gone
And the ladies are gone
But hard times and
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trouble
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been dogging our
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tail
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you got the
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dough buddy
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take her and
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go
This guitar is for
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sale
FAQ
Who sang the the song This Guitar Is For Sale?
- The song This Guitar Is For Sale 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.
