Mama Nashville

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My fans up in Whitefish say I gotta settle down somewhere
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This roaming and rambling won't get me anywhere
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Everybody’s screaming Nashville, that's where the stars are made
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So I picked up my guitar and I headed Nashville way

[Verse 2]

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So I went down to Second Ave and got myself a gig
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With 37 other singers also on the bill
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I tell you all them locals they long since moved away
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My crowd was just the other singers waiting to get on stage

[Chorus]
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Goodbye, I don't need you, and Lord knows you don’t need me
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Goodbye, Mama Nashville, you got too many mouths to feed

[Verse 3]
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They told me not to go down there and sing my originals
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They said some Nashville country singer will steal my melodies and my words
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If they wanna find some fortune, they better rob somebody else
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I barely have the balls to sing these songs myself

[Chorus]
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Goodbye, I don't need you, and Lord knows you don’t need me
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Goodbye, Mama Nashville, you got too many mouths to feed

[Verse 4]
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So I lit down to Shreveport as fast as I could
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I love the way they talk there and them women treat me good
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They said reincarnation is happening in that town
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The lawyers come back as mosquitoes or is it the other way around

[Chorus]
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Goodbye, I don't need you, and Lord knows you don’t need me
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Goodbye, Mama Nashville, you got too many mouths to feed