Billy Joe Shaver - Music City USA lyrics

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(Verse)

It all started in this little town way down in Texas

When I first heard old Johnny Cash singing prison blues

I picked my guitar like a fool and read them country magazines

Keeping up to snuff on the Music City news

(Verse 2)

One Sunday morning found me there

On the streets of Nashville

Humming out the chorus to my latest melody

Well I whooped into old Tootsie's bar

And told them local pickers

I'd done come to capture Music City, USA

(Chorus)

Can't you hear the music ringing

Can't you hear the singers singing

Can't you hear somebody humming on my homemade melody

The lost and found are searchin' here

And some new face from everywhere

Is come to capture Music City, U.S.A.

(Verse 3)

One Sunday evening found me Lord in a corner booth at Limebaugh's

Drinking black coffee and eating chili like Marty Robbins and Earnest Tubb

Set there tuning up my guitar, Lord, I couldn't wait until Monday morning

Figured if I couldn't make it then nobody could

(Verse 4)

Well, the years have come and gone, I'm still here in Nashville

Stumbling up and down 16th and 17th Avenue bugging everybody here

That I can get to stop and listen, trying hard to do all the things

I told my mom and dad that I was going to do

(Chorus)

Can't you hear the music ringing

Can't you hear the singers singing

Can't you hear somebody humming on my homemade melody

The lost and found are searchin' here

And some new face from everywhere

Is come to capture Music City, U.S.A.