Music City Usa Lyrics - Long In The Tooth - Billy Joe Shaver

It all started in this little town 

Way down in Texas 

When I first heard old Johnny Cash 

Singing prison blues 

I picked my guitar like a fool 

And read them country magazines 

Keeping up to snuff on the Music City news 

One Sunday morning found me there 

On the streets of Nashville 

Humming out the chorus to my latest melody 

Well I whooped into old Tootsie's bar 

And told them local pickers 

I'd done come to capture Music City, U.S.A. 

Can't you hear the music ringing 

Can't you hear the singers singing 

Can't you hear somebody humming on my homemade melody 

The lost and found are searching here 

And some new face from everywhere 

Is come to capture Music City, U.S.A. 

One Sunday evening found me Lord 

In a corner booth at Limebaugh's 

Drinking black coffee and eating chili 

Like Marty Robbins and Earnest Tubb 

Set there tuning up my guitar 

Lord, I couldn't wait until Monday morning 

Figured if I couldn't make it then nobody could 

Well the years have come and gone 

I'm still here in Nashville 

Stumbling up and down 16th and 17th Avenue 

Bugging everybody here 

That I can get to stop and listen 

Trying hard to do all the things 

I told my mom and dad that I was going to do 

Can't you hear the music ringing 

Can't you hear the singers singing 

Can't you hear somebody humming on my homemade melody 

The lost and found are searching here 

And some new face from everywhere 

Is come to capture Music City, U.S.A.