Country Music Has Gone To Town

(album: The Bluegrass Story - 1964)

Oh, they say that country music's gone to town
Hold your flocks and put on the cap and gown
What's the country boy to do what's this world a coming to
Oh, they say that country music's gone to town

Grandpa used to take his dear old fiddle on his knee
And Uncle Buck would git the banjo down
The only music ever heard that could stop a mocking bird
Now they say that country music's gone to town

Oh, they say that country music's gone to town
Hold your flocks and put on the cap and gown
What's the country boy to do what's this world a coming to
Oh, they say that country music's gone to town

One day I was walking through the canyons and the hills
I came upon a cabin far away
An old man with his banjo sat there a padding his big toe
And as he played it I could hear his say

Oh, they say that country music's gone to town
Hold your flocks and put on the cap and gown
What's the country boy to do what's this world a coming to
Oh, they say that country music's gone to town