Music City USA

(album: Long In The Tooth - 2014)

It all started in this little town
Way down in Texas
When he heard old Johnny Cash
Singing out them country blues
He picked his guitar every night
And read them country magazines
Keeping up to snuff on the Music City news

One pretty determined Sunday he found him
On the streets of Nashville
Humming out the chorus to his latest melody
He whooped through old Tootsie's bar
And informed the local pickers
How he'd come to capture Music City, U.S.A

Can't you hear the music ringing?
Can't you hear the singers singing?
Can't you hear somebody humming out a homemade melody?
The lost and found are searching there
Some new face from everywhere
Is come to capture Music City, U.S.A

That Sunday evening found him
In a corner booth at Limebaugh's
Drinking coffee and eating chili
Just like Earnest Tubb
Tuning up his guitar
Lord, he couldn't wait 'til Monday
He figured if he couldn't make it, nobody could

Can't you hear the music ringing?
Can't you hear the singers singing?
Can't you hear somebody humming out a homemade melody?
The lost and found are searching there
Some new face from everywhere
Is come to capture Music City, U.S.A

The years have come and gone
Since I seen him in old Nashville
Walking up 17th and 16th Avenue
Bugging everybody there
That he could get to listen
Trying hard to do exactly what he'd said he'd come to do

Now the radios are ringing
With the songs he was singing
Everybody is humming out his homemade melodies
The crazy fool with shaggy hair
Spread his songs out everywhere
Recon he done captured Music City, U.S.A