"Guitar Man" genre: Country General
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	A tune full of chicken pickin' about life on the road. This version was recorded live at the Saddle-Light club in Rock Springs, WY in late 1996.
	Credits: songwriters: phil nadeau & jim harrington
	Story Behind the Song I wrote the original version of this in our motorhome- parked along the Rock River in northern Illinois. I wrote it because our lead singer Jim was always having us play this funky-country 12-bar groove and making up silly lyrics. I decided we needed some REAL lyrics for the song- so I sat down and wrote it one cold night in Oct. 1995. Our lead singer Jim continued to make up new words to the original verses each time we played the song- usually some variation on places we were playing in- often using names of towns in NM- but it's hard to get anything to rhyme with "alamagordo" or "albuquerque"!! the "C" part: "i knew it when i left ya..." stayed the same each night. The bus really did break down- while leaving Alamagordo, NM headed for Pierre, SD (not 'Kalamazoo' as the lyric states)- our booking agent only planned one day for us to travel that great distance. We didn't make it! This recording was made live from our mixing board to a cassette recorder.. with lyrics as they were sung that night- and that night only. Lyrics Guitar Man I've got ten years on the road Playing in this honky tonk band I've seen every smoky honky tonk This side of the Rio Grande It beats working for a living And the ladies love a guitar man We played a show in Santa Fe Two nights down in 'querque too And the bus broke down On the way out to Kalamazoo But it beats working for a living And the ladies love a guitar man Well I knew it when I left ya That everything would be ok When I talked to you this morning I told you I was on my way, yeah I've got ten years on the road Playing in this honky tonk band I've seen every smoky honky tonk This side of the Rio Grande It beats working for a living And the ladies love a guitar man

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