Tilt Billings And The Student Prince Lyrics

Tilt Billings And The Student Prince lyrics

Tilt Billings and the Student Prince
   by Leo Kottke, Ron Nagle
  
Copyright 1973 Overdrive Music/ASCAP
   recorded by Leo Kottke on:
     
1973 "Ice Water" (Capitol)
      1978 "Leo Kottke The Best"
(Capitol)
Tilt Billings saw a guitar in a pawn shop window
Not much to
look at but he knew that he'd found
That old Student Prince that they made
years ago
So easy to play - what unbeatable sound!
Paid twenty bucks and
grabbed his guitar
Still be a steal at ten times the dough
It was amazing
how a mere beginner
Could play just a few notes and sound like a pro
He'd
play his heart out when he was at parties
Guys would get jealous - but girls
were impressed
They'd ask how he did it he'd say
"Nothin' to it, with this
kind of guitar it brings out my best."
One night when he had the room
captivated
He took five and set down his prince
When a drunk stumbled by
and sat down where he laid it
And he's never sounded quite the same
since
Ron Nagle's House Party:
So Tilt's still upset but he's givin' up
crying
Just can't lift his eyes from the sad, sad ground
Time marches on
with its fingers still trying
To find, once again, that Student Prince
sound.