Mama Nashville

[Verse 1]
My fans up in Whitefish say I gotta settle down somewhere
This roaming and rambling won't get me anywhere
Everybody’s screaming Nashville, that's where the stars are made
So I picked up my guitar and I headed Nashville way

[Verse 2]
So I went down to Second Ave and got myself a gig
With 37 other singers also on the bill
I tell you all them locals they long since moved away
My crowd was just the other singers waiting to get on stage

[Chorus]
Goodbye, I don't need you, and Lord knows you don’t need me
Goodbye, Mama Nashville, you got too many mouths to feed

[Verse 3]
They told me not to go down there and sing my originals
They said some Nashville country singer will steal my melodies and my words
If they wanna find some fortune, they better rob somebody else
I barely have the balls to sing these songs myself

[Chorus]
Goodbye, I don't need you, and Lord knows you don't need me
Goodbye, Mama Nashville, you got too many mouths to feed

[Verse 4]
So I lit down to Shreveport as fast as I could
I love the way they talk there and them women treat me good
They said reincarnation is happening in that town
The lawyers come back as mosquitoes or is it the other way around

[Chorus]
Goodbye, I don't need you, and Lord knows you don't need me
Goodbye, Mama Nashville, you got too many mouths to feed
Oh, Lord, you got too many mouths to feed