Get a Guitar - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

I grew up out on the rural route

There was one road there and there was one road out

From the very first time he set me on his knee

There was one thing daddy always said to me

"Get a guitar, start a band

It's somethin' worth doin' with your two hands

If you wanna get ahead, son, here's the ticket

Get a guitar and learn how to pick it"

Soon as I was old enough to hold my own

You sent away the Sears for a Silvertone

I played for the cows, played for the chickens

I could hear them peckin' while I was a pickin'

He said, "Get a guitar, start a band

It's somethin' worth doin' with your two hands

If you wanna get ahead, son, here's the ticket

Get a guitar and learn how to pick it"

Billy got some drums and Bobby got the bass

I got a used Fender with a worn-out case

I knew just as soon as I plugged it in

I'd never break a sweat on that farm again

Yeah, I played it at a dance at the city high school

And I played it loud and I played it cool

I saw that night what my daddy meant

And I ain't quit playin' this guitar since

Yeah, Daddy said, "Get a guitar, start a band

It's somethin' worth doin' with your two hands

If you wanna get ahead, son, here's the ticket

Get a guitar and learn how to pick it"

I got a guitar and learned how to pick it, oh yeah