Karaoké Perfectly Good Guitar John Hiatt

Huh

He threw one down from the top of the stairs

Beautiful women were standin' everywhere

They all got wet when he smashed that thing but off in the dark you could hear somebody sing

Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars smashin' a perfectly good guitar

I don't know who they think they are smashin' a perfectly good guitar

Woah hoo hoo

It started back in nineteen sixty-three

His mama wouldn't buy him that new red Harmony

He settled for a sunburst with a crack but he's still tryin' to break his mama's back

Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars smashin' a perfectly good guitar

I don't know who they think they are smashin' a perfectly good guitar

Woah hoo hoo

Well he loved that guitar just like a girlfriend

But every good thing comes to an end

Now he just sits in his room all day whistlin' every note he ever played

There oughta be a law with no bail

Smash a guitar and you go to jail

With no chance for early parole

You don't get out 'till you get some soul

Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars smashin' a perfectly good guitar

I don't know who they think they are smashin' a perfectly good guitar

Late at night

The end of the road

He wishes he'd still got the old guitar to hold

He'd rock it like a baby in his arms

Never let it come to any harm

Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars smashin' a perfectly good guitar

I don't know who they think they are smashin' a perfectly good

Good guitar

Oh ooh hoo

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