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Lovin' Spoonful - Nashville Cats Lyrics
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Nashville Cats playin' clean as country water
Nashville Cats playin' wild as mountain dew
Nashville Cats been playin' since they's babies
Nashville Cats it worked before there too
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 a 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 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 here ain't nobody buys them and I said, "But I will" and it was
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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
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