Nashville cats1, 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 and fifty-two
Guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
On a Tennessee anthill
Yeah, there's thirteen hundred and fifty-two
Guitar cases in Nashville
And anyone that unpacks his guitar could play
Twice as better than I will.
Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a
Musical proverbial knee-high
When I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes2
And they blasted me sky-high
And the record man said every one is a yellow
"Sun Record"3 from Nashville
And up north there ain't nobody buys them
And I said, "But I will".
And it was
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 thousand 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 got a chance to say a word about
The music and the mothers from 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
Pick it...
1. In english slang, cat is another name for a cool guy, or just a guy. Now they say "dude".2. on the radio, when they used to have tubes3. Sun Record Company founded in Memphis, Tennessee (their records have a yellow record label). They are known for first recording Elvis Presley. Later, they also released
songs by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Records