[1] (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

[1] Well there's thirteen hundred and fifty-two guitar [5] pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants on a [1] Tennessee ant hill
There's thirteen hundred and fifty-two guitar [4] cases in Nashville
And any-[5]-one that unpacks his guitar can play twice as [1] better than I will

yeah I was just 13 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

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