Nu we het er toch over hebben.
Nashville Tennessee, tehuis van countrymuziek maar net zo goed (in verband hiermee) van de rock’n’roll (het Sun-label, zoals bezongen hieronder).
De Lovin’ Spoonful, eerder R&B-georiënteerd, hebben hun liefde voor de country nooit onder stoelen of banken gestoken. Hun laatste hitsingle was een afscheid van Nashville, hoewel het onversneden countryrock was. Dit niet, dit past beter bij de jugbandtraditie van de band.
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
Nashville Cats, been playin’ since they’s babies
Nashville Cats, get work before they’re two
Well, there’s thirteen hundred and fifty two
Guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
On a Tennessee anthill
Yeah, there’s thirteen hundred and fifty two
Guitar cases in Nashville
And any one that unpacks his guitar could play
Twice as better than I will
Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say I was a
Musical proverbial knee-high
When I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes
And they blasted me sky-high
And the record man said every one is a Yellow Sun
Record from Nashville
And up North there ain’t nobody buys them
And I said, “But I will”
And it was
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
Nashville Cats, been playin’ since they’s babies
Nashville Cats, get work before they’re two
Well, there’s sixteen thousand eight hundred ‘n’ twenty one
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 got a chance to say a word about
The music and the mothers from Nashville
Nashville Cats, play clean as country water
Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew
Nashville Cats, been playin’ since they’s babies
Nashville Cats, get work before they’re two
Pick it
Nashville Cats, 1966
