Lovin Spoonful

Lovin Spoonful - Nashville Cats guitar tab

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"Nashville Cats"

(John Sebastian)

Intro:

(stock C&W intro, more-or-less invented in the 50's by Luther

Perkins of Johnny Cash's Tennessee Two)

(C)

v v v v v v v v

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---11--11--11--11|-----------------

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---22--22--22--22|-----------------

-3-------3-------|-3-------0---2---

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^ doubled w/bass

Chorus:

C G7 C

Nashville cats, play clean as country water

C G7 C

Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew

C G7 C

Nashville cats, been playin' since they's babies

C G7 C

Nashville cats, get work before they're two

Verse 1:

(C) G7

Well, there's 1352 guitar pickers in Nashville

(G7)

And they can pick more notes than the number of ants on a

C

Tennessee ant hill

F

Yeah, there's 1352 guitar cases in Nashville

G7 C

And anyone that unpacks his guitar can play twice as better than

I will

Verse 2:

Well, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a musical

proverbial knee-high

When I heard a couple new-soundin' tunes on the tubes and they

blasted me sky-high

And the record man said every one was a yellow Sun record from

Nashville [historical note: Sun was in Memphis]

And up North here ain't nobody buys them, and I said "but I will"

[repeat chorus]

Verse 3:

Well, there's 16,821 mothers from Nashville

All their friends play music and they ain't uptight if one of the

kids will

Because it's custom made for any mother's son to be a guitar picker

in Nashville

And I sure am glad I had the chance to say a word about the music

and the mothers in Nashville

[repeat chorus]

Coda:

(spoken:) Pick it...

C F

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C G7 C

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-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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