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 ant hill   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      Yes, 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 everyone is a    Yellow Sun Record from Nashville   And up North here ain’t nobody buys 'em    And I said but I will   And it was      Nashville cats playin’ clean as country water   Nashville cats playin’ wild as mountain dew.   Nashville cats been playin’ since they’s babies   Nashville cats get work before they’re two.      Well, there’s 16,821 mothers from Nasvhille   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.      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-