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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!

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Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two guitar pickers in Nashville
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And they can pick more notes than the number of ants on a
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Tennessee ant hill.
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Yeah, there's thousand tree hundred fiifith two guitar cases in Nashville
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And anyone that unpacks his guitar can 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 tubes
And they blasted me sky-high
And the record man said every one is a yellow Sun
Record from Nashville
And up north there ain't nobody buys them
And I said, but I will!

And it was...
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Nashville cats, play clean as country water!
C                     G7                 C
Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew!
C                       G7                     C
Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies!
C                      G7                  C
Nashville cats, get work before they're two!

Well, there's sixteen thousand eight hundred 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...

And it was...
C                     G7                  C
Nashville cats, play clean as country water!
C                     G7                 C
Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew!
C                       G7                     C
Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies!
C                      G7                  C
Nashville cats, get work before they're two!


Coda: C F G C