Nashville Cats chords by The Lovin Spoonful

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

Nashville Cats chords
Lovin' Spoonful 1957 (John Sebastian)

C majorC *

C majorC  G+G   C majorC              C7C7
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
C majorC  G+G   C majorC              C7C7
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
C majorC  G+G   C majorC                C7C7
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies
C majorC  G+G   C majorC               C7C7
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two

       C majorC
Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two
    G+G
Guitar pickers in Nashville

And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
   C majorC
On a Tennessee anthill

Yeah, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two
    FF
Guitar cases in Nashville
    G+G
And any one that unpacks his guitar could play
     C majorC      C7C7
Twice as better than I will

      C majorC
Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a
          G+G
Musical proverbial knee-high

When I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes
          C majorC
And they blasted me sky-high

And the record man said every one is a yellow Sun
FF
Record from Nashville
    G+G
And up north there ain't nobody buys them
        C majorC C7C7
And I said, but I will

And it was

C majorC  G+G   C majorC              C7C7
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
C majorC  G+G   C majorC              C7C7
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
C majorC  G+G   C majorC                C7C7
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies
C majorC  G+G   C majorC               C7C7
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two

       C majorC
Well, there's sixteen thousand eight hundred twenty one
G+G
Mothers from Nashville

All their friends play music, and they ain't uptight
  C majorC
If one of the kids will

Because it's custom made for any mother's son
    FF
To be a guitar picker in Nashville
   G+G
And I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word about
                C majorC
The music and the mothers from Nashville

C majorC  G+G   C majorC              C7C7
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
C majorC  G+G   C majorC              C7C7
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
C majorC  G+G   C majorC                C7C7
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies
C majorC  G+G   C majorC               C7C7
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two . . . picking

C majorC FF C majorC G+G C majorC

* Alternate

Capo III

C majorC = A augmentedA
G+G = E MajorE
G7G7 = A7A7
FF = D MajorD

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