Chuck Gillespie - Pawn Shop Six String lyrics

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Verse 1:

When I was a little boy

I really wanted to be

Singing on stage like

Johnny Cash or Elvis Presley.

A tennis racket for guitar

And a hairbrush microphone.

I'd sing love me tender

And green green grass of home.

My dreams of really makin' big

lacked a lot of needed noise.

Had to get me a real guitar

And put away those toys. There's

Not a lot of money for a fifteen year old kid. Headed to the west end of town is exactly what I did.

Chorus:

And bought me that pawn shop six string

Got you at the pawn and loan.

Laid down twenty dollars

I was free to take you home.

You probably didn't know it,

But I feel scratched up too.

Guess I'm just a pawn shop six string myself.

Pawn shop six string, Oh the places you took me.

Playin' guitar in raunchy bars for a burger and a drink.

You probably didn't know it, but I feel scratched up too.

Guess I'm just a pawn shop six string myself.

Verse 2:

I brought you home on the city bus

And headed for my room.

The lyrics started coming,

We turned them into tunes.

We wrote all about the girls I loved.

The heartaches and the joys.

To us, it sounded really good.

To Mom, just a bunch of noise.

Lots of scratches and a messed up bridge

And frets that made me bleed.

You were used...seemed very old.

To a young boy like me.

Many years later, I'm playing with new guitars.

Writing songs that never get heard from the bottom of my heart.

Chorus:

Pawn Shop six string

Got you at the pawn and loan.

Laid down twenty dollars

I was free to take you home.

You probably didn't know it,

But I feel scratched up too.

Guess I'm just a pawn shop six string myself.

Pawn shop six string, Oh the places you took me.

Playin' guitar in raunchy bars for a burger and a drink.

You probably didn't know it, but I feel scratched up too.

Guess I'm just a pawn shop six string myself.

Bridge:

Just once I'd like the world to hear.

What that old guitar and I've been up to all these years.

Chorus:

Pawn Shop Six String

Got you at the pawn and loan.

Laid down twenty dollars

I was free to take you home.

Guess you didn't know it,

But I feel scratched up too.

Guess I'm just a pawn shop six string myself.

Pawn shop six string, Oh the places you took me.

Playin' guitar in raunchy bars for a burger and a drink.

You probably didn't know it, but I feel scratched up too.

Guess I'm just a pawn shop six string myself.

Guess I'm just a pawn shop six string myself.