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 thirteen hundred and fifty two
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
cases in nashville
and any one that unpacks ‘is could play
twice as better than i will
yeah i was just thirteen you might say i was a
musical proverbial kneehigh
when i heard a couple newsounding tunes on the tubes
and they blasted me skyhigh
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
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 ‘n’ 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 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
Artist: The Lovin Spoonful
Year: 1966
Decade: 60s
Language: en
Word Count: 163