Yakety Axe-Chet Atkins/Mark Knopfler

[00:00.500]Yakety Axe -Mark Knopfler [00:05.730]Poverty stricken but still [00:07.620]I'm a-stickin'to the things I know to be facts [00:10.390]One day it's feathers and the next day chicken [00:13.80]While I'm pickin'my yakety axe [00:15.610]Ev'rybody says that I never will get far [00:18.160]Keepin'out of work by pickin'this guitar [00:20.610]Livin'on a shoestring puttin'off things like a shave and a haircut [00:25.410]Money don't matter as long as [00:27.630]I scatter a little bit of happiness around [00:30.119]If people keep a grinnin'I figure [00:31.739]I'm a winnin'my good old yakety sound [00:35.218]City folks go around turnin'up their noses and [00:37.908]Countin'their greenbacks and smellin'their roses [00:39.768]But I wouldn't trade my yakety axe even for a T-bone [00:45.288]I'm confessin'I never took a lesson all my notes are a matter of guessin' [00:50.288]Hopin'they'll come out in some kinda manner that'll make the yakety sound [00:54.888]So if you're in the mood and your feet start tappin' [00:57.318]And you feel laid back and your hands start clappin' [00:59.778]Then I'll have done what I wanted to from way back [01:02.248]You're diggin'my yakety axe