LOVIN SPOONFUL - "nashville cats" Tablature

Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:49:36 -0500
From: Andrew Rogers <rogers@hi.com>
Subject: ./l/lovin_spoonful/nashville_cats.crd

"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
---00--00--00--00|-----------------
---11--11--11--11|-----------------
---00--00--00--00|-----------------
---22--22--22--22|-----------------
-3-------3-------|-3-------0---2---
-----3-------3---|-----3-----------
<----- 3X -----> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

C G7 C
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers