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In a little cabaret in a South Texas border town
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sat a boy and his guitar and the people came from all around
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And all the girls from there to Austin
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were slippin' 'way from home and puttin' jewerly in hock (Fig1)
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to take a trip to go and listen
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to the little dark haired boy who played the Tennessee Flat Top Box
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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 hypmotized and fascinated
by the little dark haired boy who 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
and 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 who played the Tennessee Flat Top Box
and he would play
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