FLAT TOP GUITAR BLUES
(Lloyd Copas)

Cowboy Copas - 1961


I went down to Nashville on a Saturday night
To see that Barn Dance Jubilee
Well I met a boy with a flat top guitar
He really picked the blues for me, Oh! Lord
He really picked the blues for me

I asked him if he knew a song called Alabam
Or a song about sunny Tennessee
He said he thought he might and, Lordy, what a sight
When he played that flat top for me, Oh! Lord
When he played that flat top for me

(Instrumental Break)

Some people like songs about the mountain
And others about the deep blue sea
Just gimme that ol' boy and his flat top guitar
And let him pick the blues for me
Yes, let him pick the blues for me

If you ever come to Nashville on a Saturday night
Be sure and see that Barn Dance Jubilee
You will hear the fiddles sing and the banjos they will ring
And the flat top will play it's blues for me
And the flat top will play it's blues for me







(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - March 2011)