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...  

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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. 
  

#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.  

And it was...  

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