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 
NashvilleAnd 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 
NashvilleAnd any one unpacks his guitar
Can play twice better than 
I willI was just thirteen, you might say 
I was aMusical proverbial knee high
When I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes
And they blasted me sky high
Then the record man said every one is a [Incomprehensible]
Record from 
NashvilleAnd up north there ain't nobody buys them
And I said but 
I willNashville 
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
I've sixteen thousand eight hundred twenty one
Mothers from 
NashvilleAll their friends play music and they ain't uptight
If one of the kids will'
Cause it's custom made for any mother's son
To be a guitar picker in 
NashvilleI sure am glad, 
I got a chance to say a word about
The music and the mothers from 
NashvilleNashville 
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