Nashville cats, play clean as country water

Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew

Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies

Nashville cats, get work before they're two

Well, there's thirteen hundred fifty two guitar pickers in Nashville

And they can pick more notes than the number of ants on a

Tennessee ant hill

Yeah, there's thirteen hundred fifty two guitar cases in Nashville

And anyone that unpacks his guitar can play twice as better than I will

Well, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a musical

proverbial knee-high

When I heard a couple new-soundin' tunes on the tubes and they

blasted me sky-high

And the record man said every one was a yellow Sun record from

Nashville

And up North here ain't nobody buys them, and I said "but I will"

Nashville cats, play clean as country water

Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew

Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies

Nashville cats, get work before they're two

Well, there's sixteen hundred eight hundred and twenty one mothers from Nashville

All their friends play music and they ain't uptight if one of the kids will

Because it's custom made for any mother's son to be a guitar picker in Nashville

And I sure am glad I had the chance to say a word about the music

and the mothers in Nashville

Nashville cats, play clean as country water

Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew

Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies

Nashville cats, get work before they're two