NASHVILLE CATS (key A) (John Sebastian)

Chorus:

 A     E7   A

Nashville cats, play clean as country water

 A     E7   A

Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew

 A     E7   A

Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies

 A     E7   A

Nashville cats, get work before they're two...

             (A)                          E7

1. Well, there's 1352 guitar pickers in Nashville

             (E7)

And they can pick more notes than the number of ants on a

 A

Tennessee ant hill

                                          D

Yeah, there's 1352 guitar cases in Nashville

       E7                                                                          A

And anyone that unpacks his guitar can play twice as better than I will

Verse 2:

2. Well, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a musical proverbial knee-high

When I heard a couple new-soundin' tunes on the tubes and they blasted me sky-high

And the record man said every one was a yellow Sun record from Nashville            

And up North here ain't nobody buys them, and I said "but I will"

[repeat chorus]

3. Well, there's 16,821 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 had the chance to say a word about the music and the mothers in Nashville

[repeat chorus]