Nashville Cats Chords
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| Difficulty: | beginner |
|---|---|
| Tuning: | E A D G B E |
| Key: | C |
| Capo: | no capo |
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Nashville Cats chords
Lovin Spoonful 1966 (John Sebastian)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Cats
C *
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two
C
Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two
G
Guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
C
On a Tennessee anthill
Yeah, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two
F
Guitar cases in Nashville
G
And any one that unpacks his guitar could play
C C7
Twice as better than I will
C
Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a
G
Musical proverbial knee-high
When I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes
C
And they blasted me sky-high
And the record man said every one is a yellow Sun
F
Record from Nashville
G
And up north there ain't nobody buys them
C C7
And I said, but I will
And it was
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two
C
Well, there's sixteen thousand eight hundred twenty one
G
Mothers from Nashville
All their friends play music, and they ain't uptight
C
If one of the kids will
Because it's custom made for any mother's son
F
To be a guitar picker in Nashville
G
And I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word about
C
The music and the mothers from Nashville
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, been playin' since they's babies
C G C C7
Nashville Cats, get work before they're two . . . picking
C F C G C
* Alternate
Capo III
C = A
G = E
C7 = A7
F = D
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I've always heard "the record man said everyone's sellin' some record from Nashville." Surely, Sebastian knew Sun records is Memphis, no?
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The dominant 7th chord is incorrect for the tonic chord C at the end of each line. The publisher's sheet music doesn't portray it that way; the shrillness you hear in the recorded version is an inverted harmony above the singers' useful range [LOL] i.e., E-G-C (That's Sebastian's good-natured parody of Nashville, and the mothers of Nashville thank you!)
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this is the ONE! play it with the recording and see.
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