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Nash-ville cats play clean as country water
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Nash-ville cats play wild as mountain dew
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Nash-ville cats been playin' since they's babies
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Nash-ville cats get work before they're two
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Well there's 13 hundred and 52 guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
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On a Tennessee ant hill
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Yeah there's 13 hundred and 52 guitar cases in Nashville
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And any one that unpacks his guitar can play
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Twice as better than I will
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Yes I was just 13 you might say I was a musical pro-verbial knee-high
When I heard a couple new soundin' 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 here ain't nobody buys 'em and I said but I will
And it was
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Nash-ville cats play clean as country water
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Nash-ville cats play wild as mountain dew
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Nash-ville cats been playin' since they's babies
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Nash-ville cats get work before they're two
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Well there's 16 thousand 821 mothers from Nashville
All their friends play music and they ain't up-tight
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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
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About the music and the mothers from Nashville
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Nash-ville cats play clean as country water
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Nash-ville cats play wild as mountain dew
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Nash-ville cats been playin' since they's babies
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Nash-ville cats get work before they're two
