NASHVILLE CATS
(Lyrics/Music : John B. Sebastian)
The Lovin' Spoonful - 1967


CHORUS 
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water 
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew 
Nashville Cats, been playing 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 any one that unpacks his guitar could play 
Twice as better than I will 

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" 

And it was 
CHORUS 

Well, there's sixteen thousand eight hundred īnī 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 

CHORUS 

SPOKEN: Pick it 

(Instrumental to end)