[ti:Yakety Axe] [ar:Mark Knopfler] [al:Neck And Neck] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Yakety Axe - Chet Atkins/Mark Knopfler [00:02.86]Written by:M. Travis [00:05.73]Poverty stricken but still [00:07.62]I'm a-stickin' to the things I know to be facts [00:10.39]One day it's feathers and the next day chicken [00:13.08]While I'm pickin' my yakety axe [00:15.61]Ev'rybody says that I never will get far [00:18.16]Keepin' out of work by pickin' this guitar [00:20.61]Livin' on a shoestring puttin' off things like a shave and a haircut [00:25.41]Money don't matter as long as [00:27.63]I scatter a little bit of happiness around [00:30.11]If people keep a grinnin' I figure [00:31.73]I'm a winnin' my good old yakety sound [00:35.21]City folks go around turnin' up their noses and [00:37.90]Countin' their greenbacks and smellin' their roses [00:39.76]But I wouldn't trade my yakety axe even for a T-bone [00:45.28]I'm confessin' I never took a lesson all my notes are a matter of guessin' [00:50.28]Hopin' they'll come out in some kinda manner that'll make the yakety sound [00:54.88]So if you're in the mood and your feet start tappin' [00:57.31]And you feel laid back and your hands start clappin' [00:59.77]Then I'll have done what I wanted to from way back [01:02.24]You're diggin' my yakety axe