The Lovin' Spoonful – Nashville Cats (Ukulele)

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#-------------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------# # This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # # song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------# Lovin Spoonful 1966 (John Sebastian) C *

C   G     C                           C7
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water

C   G     C                           C7
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew

C   G     C                               C7
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies

C   G     C                             C7
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two

              C                
Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two

       G
Guitar pickers in Nashville

And they can pick more notes than the number of ants

     C
On a Tennessee anthill

Yeah, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two

       F
Guitar cases in Nashville

        G                
And any one that unpacks his guitar could play

         C           C7
Twice as better than I will

            C
Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a

                   G
Musical proverbial knee-high

When I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes

                    C
And they blasted me sky-high

And the record man said every one is a yellow Sun

F
Record from Nashville

       G
And up north there ain't nobody buys them

                C C7
And I said, but I will

And it was

C   G     C                           C7
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water

C   G     C                           C7
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew

C   G     C                               C7
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies

C   G     C                             C7
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two

              C
Well, there's sixteen thousand eight hundred twenty one

G
Mothers from Nashville

All their friends play music, and they ain't uptight

   C
If one of the kids will

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

        F
To be a guitar picker in Nashville

      G
And I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word about

                               C
The music and the mothers from Nashville

C   G     C                           C7
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water

C   G     C                           C7
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew

C   G     C                               C7
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies

C   G     C                             C7
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two . . . picking

C F C G C * Alternate Capo III C = A G = E G7 = A7 F = D Set8