First time I heard it I fell in love

I knew I had to learn it

I just 'a couldn't get enough

'cause no sunday-church piano had ever done that to me

Had ever done that to me

Since that day I've been a workin' on just what you see.

I've worn a handle plum off a shovel

Swung the head of a hammer or two

But that don't drive the girls crazy like me and this thing do.

I ain't in it for the money

If I was, I'd do something else

I ain't in it for the fame

I damn sure ain't in it for my health

I play this thing 'til the sun comes up

For nothin' but the love.

Hey, nothin' kickstarts my heart like guitar.

It's got me a lot of girls

And it's cost me jobs

It's lost me some good girls

The last one's in arkansas

Yeah, they love the way I play "ramblin' man"

But hate it when it's time to move

I'ma gonna keep on pickin'

'cause that's what I was born to do.

Ain't in it for the money

If I was, I'd do something else

Ain't in it for the fame

I damn sure ain't in it for my health

I play this thing 'til the sun comes up

For nothin' but the love.

Yeah, nothin' kickstarts my heart like guitar.

I ain't in it for the money

If I was, I'd do something else

I ain't in it for the fame

I damn sure ain't in it for my health

I play this thing 'til the sun comes up

For nothin' but the love.

Hey, nothin' kickstarts my heart like guitar

Yeah, I said, "nothin' kickstarts my heart like guitar."