Lovin Spoonful - Nashville Cats

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nashville cats chords
lovin spoonful 1957 ( 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

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