Nashville Rash

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Help me Merle, I’m breakin’ out in a
 Nashville rash
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It’s looking like I’m fallin in the
   G
 cracks
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I’m too country now for country, 
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just like Johnny Cash
        C                   G     
Help me Merle, I’m breakin’ out in
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 a Nashville rash


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Shoulda known it when they closed 
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the Opry down
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Things are bound to change in that 
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town
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You can’t grow when you rip the 
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roots out of the ground
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Looks like that Nashville rash is 
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getting’ ‘round


Continues after the ad
[Chorus]
                       C
Help me Merle, I’m breakin’ out in a
 Nashville rash
       C                           
It’s looking like I’m fallin in the
   G
 cracks
        C                       
I’m too country now for country, 
                  F
just like Johnny Cash
        C                   G     
Help me Merle, I’m breakin’ out in
             C
 a Nashville rash

Steel solo

Guitar solo


[Verse]
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Ain’t it funny how things can 
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really change
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Rock and roll back in the 70’s are 
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country hits today
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Breaks my heart to see my heros 
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fadin’ away
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The victims of Nashville rash, 
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it’s Nashville’s ways


[Chorus]
                       C
Help me Merle, I’m breakin’ out in a
 Nashville rash
       C                           
It’s looking like I’m fallin in the
   G
 cracks
        C                       
I’m too country now for country, 
                  F
just like Johnny Cash
        C                   G     
Help me Merle, I’m breakin’ out in
             C
 a Nashville rash