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Nashville Cats Lyrics

Artist: Lovin' Spoonful

Nashville Cats
The Lovin' Spoonful
- peak Billboard position # 8 in 1967
- Words and Music by John B. Sebastian

CHORUS
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 any one that unpacks 'is 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 '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 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: Kick it

Transcribed by Robin Hood

Comments/Interpretations

by MikeP on 7/2/2008 8:33pm
GREAT SONG :o)

by Jack on 3/29/2013 6:59pm
The last phrase is "pick it"

by Cynthia Williams on 4/5/2014 7:17am
How do I get permission to play song for a non-profit that adopts cats and kittens in Nashville. Want to include song in videos of available kitties. Thank you!