Six strings on this old guitar, I broke one, now there's five But five's enough to play my love song and try to win her back 'Cause the nights're cold and lonely since she's gone She heard that guitar picker named Atkins play our favorite song And ever since she's heard him play everything I do is wrong Sittin' up here underneath her window, barren down with all of my might Things just gettin' sore just pickin' that guitar But I gotta pick loud 'cause she slammed the window down tight She heard that guitar picker named Atkins play our favorite song And ever since she's heard him play everything I do is wrong
Five strings on this old guitar, I broke another, now there's only four If I can just hang on to this four string guitar I can fix things up tonight like they were before She heard that guitar picker named Atkins play our favorite song And ever since she's heard him play everything I do is wrong I've heard tell of a four string guitar, two more just broke, I got two to go But I'm gonna pick the fire out of this two string guitar Keeping my baby is my one desire For sale, this beat up guitar only got one string to play our song And I got no one to hold and kiss me 'Cause Chester Atkins got my baby and gone