Music City U.S.A. chords by
Billy Joe Shaver

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Key: E major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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It all started in this little town
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way down in Texas
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When he old Johnny Cash
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Singing hectic country blues
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He picked his guitar every night
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And read them country magazines
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Keeping up to snuff on
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the Music City news

Verse 2
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One predetermined Sunday found
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him on the streets of Nashville
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Humming out the chorus
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to his latest melody
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He whooped through old Tootsie's bar
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and informed the local pickers
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How he'd come to capture Music City,
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U.S.A.

Verse 3
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Can't you hear the music ringing?
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Can't you hear the singers singing?
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Can't you hear somebody humming
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out my homemade melody?
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The lost and found are searching there
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And some new face from everywhere
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Is come to capture Music City, U.S.A.

Verse 4
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That Sunday evening found him in a corner
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booth at Limebaugh's
Drinking coffee and eating chili
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just like Earnest Tubb
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Tuning up his guitar,
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Lord he couldn't wait till Monday
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He figured if he couldn't make it,
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nobody could

Verse 5
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Can't you hear the music ringing?
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Can't you hear the singers singing?
A A 
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Can't you hear somebody humming
D D 
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out my homemade melody?
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The lost and found are searching there
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And some new face from everywhere
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Is come to capture Music City,
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U.S.A.

Interlude 1

Verse 6
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The years have come and gone since
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I seen him in ol' Nashville
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Walking up 17th and 16th Avenue
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Bugging everybody there that
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he could get to listen
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Trying hard to do exactly what he'd
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said he'd come to do
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Now the radios are

Verse 7
ringin' with
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the songs that he was singin'
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Everybody here's a- hummin'
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out his homemade melodies
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That crazy fool with shaggy hair
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spread his songs out everywhere
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I reckon he done captured Music City, U.S.A

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