Nashville 1972

G# 200232 G#/C C# F# C# G# C# C# F# C# I had a dog named Banjo and a girl named Muffin G# C# I just blew in from Texas, I didn't know nothing F# C# But I found my way around this town with a friend I made named Guy G# C# Who loved Susanna, and so did I C# F# C# Now, there was this run down shack on Acklen Avenue that I shared with Skinny Dennis G# C# And a poet name of Richard Dobson who had a novel he'd never finish F# C# That's when Johnny Rodriguez, David Olney and Steve Earle first came through G# C# And every other guitar bum whose name I never knew F# C# G# C# Old school Nashville, Harlan Howard, Bob McDill F# C# G# C# Tom T. Hall, go drink your fill, and blow us all away C# F# C# G# C# C# F# C# Now, there was this tight-rope-walker who called herself "The Queen of Poughkeepsie" G# C# Who ran away from the circus with some roustabout redneck gypsy F# C# Now, they were Townes Van Zandt fans and prone to combustion G# C# They fought like dogs in Spanish and made love in Russian A#m G# F# C# I wish Newberry and Buck White would drop on by the house tonight A#m G# F# G# Things have changed 'round here you bet, but it don't seem much better yet C# F# C# I first met Willie Nelson with some friends at a party G# C# I was twenty-two years old and he must've been pushing forty F# C# Now, there was hippies and reefer and God knows what all, I was drinking pretty hard G# C# I played him this shitty song I wrote, then puked out in the yard F# C# G# C# Old school Nashville, Harlan Howard, Bob McDill F# C# G# C# Tom T. Hall, go drink your fill, and blow us all away F# C# G# C# Tom T. Hall, go drink your fill, and blow us all away C# F# C# G# C#