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

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

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

Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say
I was a musical proverbial knee high
When I heard a couple new soundin' tunes
On the tube and they blasted me sky high

Then the record man said
'Everyone is a yellow sun record from Nashville
And up north there ain't nobody buys 'em'
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 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
Those Nashville cats been playin' since they's babies
Oh, them Nashville cats get work before they're two