Nashville Cats Lyrics - Singles - Lovin Spoonful

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 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 

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 sixteen thousand eight hundred and 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 

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 

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