Nashville Here We Come (narration) Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

Well it was a pretty successful breakfast gig 

But It was Milton's other option that would get me 

moving in the direction that I wanted to be going 

About six months later while we were in the studio 

He told me he was planning one of his trips to Nashville 

Which he did once or twice a year 

to record demos of his songs, which he would then pitch 

to recording artists in Nashville 

He had a pretty good track record and 

he had established pretty good contacts in music city as well 

He asked me to come along 

And then explained the plan 

Travis had moved to Nashville a couple of months earlier 

when a job opened up as a full time engineer at Spar Recording Studios 

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He would be engineering Milton's sessions 

Milton wanted me to do a vocal of one of his contemporary 

songs called round like a ball 

When that was finished we would use the time 

left on the session to record three of my songs 

With the ace studio players he had hired 

He told me that the top pedal steel player at the time, 

Lloyd Greene was from Mobile and a 

friend and would be playing on the session 

Milton had told him about me coming along 

This would give us a Nashville recorded session of demos 

that he could then pitch to record companies 

I thanked him about 1000 times in 

the minutes after he explained the plan 

And with Milton's help, it seemed that a few pieces of the puzzle 

I saw as my future, seemed to be finally fitting together 

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I was anxious, excited and a bit uncertain 

as I kept repeating to myself everyday 

before we boarded the plane, 

Damn, we're going to Nashville 

And make no mistake about it, Nashville was the big time 

There certainly weren't any major career moves happening 

for me at the Admiral's Corner or the electrical department at 

Alabhama [?] Shipbuilding company 

So as Mark Twain said, I was ready to light out into the territory 

Meanwhile, back in Mobile, before we left, 

the tape player kept on recording 

This was another favourite Lightfoot song, called the Gypsey 

About a fortune-teller that was 

very popular in our Bourbon Street days 

and I had my fortune read a few times in that town 

I will blame that habit on my favourite record of that era,, 

Fortune Teller, 

written by Allen Toussaint and recorded by Benny Spellman 

Benny seemed to have gotten a little 

more of his money's worth than Gordon did 

Anyway, Here's one of the last songs that i recorded in Mobile 

before I went looking for my own fortune... Here is the Gypsey