Listen To My Song Lyrics - Del Reeves

Alright gang, I've wrote this smash hit 

Ha, ha, ha, it's not so funny 

Let's all sing together, it's got to be pretty, let's go 

Listen to my song, well, listen to my song 

(Tell me if you'd like it play, I'll change it if it's wrong 

Listen to my music, George, see if it's alright 

If it's not what you've had in mind, I'll write you one tonight) 

Well, I wrote a little song a few months ago 

My friends all said that thing oughta go 

So I packed my bags and I hit for Nashville town 

Well, I wanted to get me a big star to do it 

So I made me a list with a few names through it 

And I started out to see if Eddy Arnold was in town 

Well, I come in a home way back in the den 

I can tell he was glad when I walked in 

'Cause he broken the singin', 'Make The World Go Away' 

He finally listen the part of my song 

And then with a drawl of two, two miles long 

He said see Ernest Tubb, ha, ha, he lives just across the way 

Listen to my song 

Well, I'd see ol' Ern, he was walking the floor 

'Cause just as records were sellin' lower 

But he put me on a take and listened to every word 

He said, I've been singin' since I was a kid 

And nothin' sounds like that song did 

Ah, throw him out Billy Byrd 

Well, I quit myself, got back on my feet 

I saw Johnny Cash up in down the street 

And I asked him if he can use a hit or two 

He said, I made mon' on a Ring Of Fire 

Size Luther King, playin' on his guitar 

So I don't care of the doo-di-dood-di 

I called Bill Anderson and he was at home 

But he said my mama sang a song 

I'm sorry but I hope that you understand 

I saw Ralph Emery and I talked to him 

Along ol' Tex Ritter and WSM 

But they was too busy shakin' one another's hands 

Folly I decided that the only way 

A stranger in Nashville can make a little hay 

Is just to turn a record himself with that Nashville sound 

So I borrowed me some money and that's what I did 

Everybody tells me, I've got a hit 

At least it's bubblin' under about one hundred, ha, ha 

And follows Alabama at the bus station 

Listen to my song