Tonart: F major
Verse 1
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While his friends
were rockin' round the clock
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inside the high school gym
He was out back in his pickup truck,
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pickin' up WSM
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Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison
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were blastin' in the hall
Outside Carl Smith and Roy Acuff
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and the Wabash Cannonball
That graduation speaker
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told every boy and girl
It was their American duty
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to go forth and save the world
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But the only part he wanted to save
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was Nashville, Tennessee
The home of country music,
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where he always wanted to be.
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He checked into Music City
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at the Sam Davis Hotel,
Bought his mom an electric picture
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of the wo man at the well.
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Just a short walk to the stage door
He was getting a little bit closer
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to where he al ways wanted to be.
Aw, pretty bird now.
He told anyone who'd listen,
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I'm gonna be a star.
They'd smile and keep on walking,
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Say, yeah, I'm sure you are.
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He'd shake his fist and tell them,
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Just you wait and see,
Today you are country music,
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But tomorrow I won't be.
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He's done everything he wanted to
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and more than he planned
He's got two Silver Eagles
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and another one for the band
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He's got three ex -wives in Nashville
Gold records and a TV show,
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and taxes he can't pay
Two kids he never gets to see
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and will never get to know
But he's had 18 number
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one records in a row
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He never sees the lights of home,
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cause there's no home to see
But he's in country music
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where he always wanted to be.
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