If There Was No Country Music

| Dm7/G | Dm7/G | G7 | C | C | C F If Loretta stayed in Butcher Holler and Conway still sang rock, G G C or if Chet had played the piccolo when Billboard had no charts. C F If Tanya stayed at school would Johnny barbecue that goat G G C and if Minnie didn't buy that hat would Archie tell his jokes. C F If Ernest never waltzed across that Texas border line G G C and the truckers never rolled again to the songs of Red Sovine. C F What if Marty and that Devil Woman learned to love again G G C and Melvin never stuttered, what a state we'd all be in? F C There'd be no country music, no homespun comedy, D7 G rock'n'roll would drive us mad and dominate the scene. C F There'd be an Opry House but not in Nashville, Tennessee, G G C if there was no country music, what a sad world this would be. | Dm7/G | Dm7/G | G7 | C | A7 | (Key Change to E D G If Hank had never known the torment of a cheatin' heart, A7 A7 D or Guy Drake never told about that "Welfare Cadillac" car. D G If Cash had never walked the line with June there by his side, A7 A7 D we'd never hear those country songs sung by Charley Pride. D G But if Acuff kept it secret 'bout the Wabash Cannonball A7 A7 D and Eddy Arnold didn't sing his lonesome cattle call. D G If we never heard the guitar or the fiddle start to play, A7 A7 D we'd never know the pleasure that we'd missed along the way. End-Chorus G D There'd be no country music, no homespun comedy, E7 A rock'n'roll would drive us mad and dominate the scene. D G There'd be an Opry House but not in Nashville, Tennessee, A7 A7 D if there was no country music, what a sad world this would be. A7 A7 D If there was no country music, what a sad world this would be.