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 13 hundred and 52

Guitar pickers in Nashville

And they can pick more notes

Than the number of ants

On a Tennessee ant hill

Yeah, there’s 13 hundred and 52

Guitar cases in Nashville

And anyone that unpacks his guitar

Can play twice as better than I will

Well, I just turned 6

You might say I was a musical

Proverbial knee-high

When I heard a couple

New sounding tunes on the tubes

And they blasted me sky high

And the record man said

Everyone is a yellow sun

Record from Nashville

And up north here

Ain’t nobody buys them

And I said, "But I will."

Chorus

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 16 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