| C | |
| v v v v v v v v |
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---11--11--11--11|------------------|
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---22--22--22--22|------------------|
-3-------3-------|-3-------0---2----|
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<----- 3X -------------------------| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ doubled w/bass
| Chorus: |
| C | G7 | C | |
| N | ashv | ille c | ats, play clean as country water |
| C | G7 | C | |
| N | ashv | ille c | ats, play wild as mountain dew |
| C | G7 | C | |
| N | ashv | ille c | ats, been playin' since they's babies |
| C | G7 | C | |
| N | ashv | ille c | ats, get work before they're two |
| Verse 1: |
| C | G7 | |
| Well, there's | 1352 guitar p | ickers in Nashville |
| G7 | |
| And they can | pick more notes than the number of ants on a |
| C | |
| T | ennessee ant hill |
| F | |
| Yeah, there's 1352 guitar c | ases in Nashville |
| G7 | C | |
| And any | one that unpacks his guitar can play twice as b | etter than |
| I will |
| Verse 2: |
| Well, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a musical |
| proverbial knee-high |
| When I heard a couple new-soundin' tunes on the tubes and they |
| blasted me sky-high |
| And the record man said every one was a yellow Sun record from |
| Nashville (historical note: Sun was in Memphis) |
| And up North here ain't nobody buys them, and I said "but I will" |
| (repeat chorus) |
| Verse 3: |
| Well, there's 16,821 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 had the chance to say a word about the music |
| and the mothers in Nashville |
| (repeat chorus) |
| Coda: |
| (spoken:) Pick it... |
| -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers |