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

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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

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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

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