Music City USA

It all started in this little town way down in Texas When he old Johnny Cash Singing hectic country blues He picked his guitar every night And read them country magazines Keeping up to snuff on the Music City news One predetermined Sunday 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 my homemade melody? The lost and found are searching there And 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 till 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 my homemade melody? The lost and found are searching there And 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 ol' 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 ringin' with the songs that he was singin' Everybody here's a-hummin' out his homemade melodies That crazy fool with shaggy hair spread his songs out everywhere I reckon he done captured Music City, U.S.A --- Music City USA - Billy Joe Shaver