Nashville Cats

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Nashville Cats, play clean as country water.
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Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew.
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Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies.
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Nashville Cats, get work before they're two.

#1.
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Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty-two
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guitar pickers in Nashville.
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And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
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on a Tennessee anthill.

Yeah, there's thirteen hundred and fifty-two
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guitar cases in Nashville.
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And anyone that unpacks his guitar will play...
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twice as better than I will.

#2.
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Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a
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musical proverbial knee-high.

When I heard a couple new sounding tunes on the tubes
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and they blasted me sky high.
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And the record man said 'Every one is a Yellow Sun
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Record from Nashville.
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And up North there ain't nobody buys them,' and I said,
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'But I will.' And it was...

CHORUS:

#3.
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Well, there's sixteen thousand eight hundred twenty-one
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mothers from Nashville.

All their friends play music, and they ain't uptight
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if one of the kids will.
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Because it's custom made for any mother's son
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to be a guitar picker in Nashville.
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And I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word about
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the music and the mothers from Nashville.