Mama Nashville

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My fans up in Whitefish say I gotta 
settle down somewhere
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This roaming and rambling won't get 
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me anywhere
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Everybody’s screaming Nashville, 
that's where the stars are made
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So I picked up my guitar and I 
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headed Nashville way

[Verse 2]

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So I went down to Second Ave and got
 myself a gig
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With 37 other singers also on the 
bill
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I tell you all them locals they long
 since moved away
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My crowd was just the other 
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singers waiting to get on stage

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[Chorus]
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Goodbye, I don't need you, and Lord 
knows you don’t need me
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Goodbye, Mama Nashville, you got 
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too many mouths to feed

[Verse 3]
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They told me not to go down there 
and sing my originals
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They said some Nashville country 
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singer will steal my melodies and my
 words
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If they wanna find some fortune, 
they better rob somebody else
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I barely have the balls to sing 
these songs myself

[Chorus]
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Goodbye, I don't need you, and Lord 
knows you don’t need me
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Goodbye, Mama Nashville, you got 
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too many mouths to feed

[Verse 4]
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So I lit down to Shreveport as fast 
as I could
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I love the way they talk there and
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 them women treat me good
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They said reincarnation is happening
 in that town
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The lawyers come back as 
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mosquitoes or is it the other way 
around

[Chorus]
G                              C
Goodbye, I don't need you, and Lord 
knows you don’t need me
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Goodbye, Mama Nashville, you got 
D        C         G
too many mouths to feed