Nashville Cats Lyrics - Flatt And Scruggs

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 anthill 

Yeah, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two 

Guitar cases in Nashville 

And any one unpacks his guitar 

Can play twice better than I will 

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 

Then the record man said every one is a [Incomprehensible] 

Record from Nashville 

And up north there ain't nobody buys them 

And I said but 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 

I've 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 

'Cause it's custom made for any mother's son 

To be a guitar picker in Nashville 

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 

Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies 

Nashville Cats, get work before they're two