The singer laments how stranded engineers from big cities came to the hillbilly towns and turned them into something they weren’t before.
(Are you ready, Hezzie?)
(Oh-ho-ho-huh huh!)
(Content!)
[Instrumental break]
(My time?)
(Your time, Hezzie!)
Been hangin' round the mountains all these years
Singin' songs about them train wrecked engineers
(Tell them, Gabey!)
They've invaded all the cities (???) and ditties
And they got the population all in tears
They came to town from them thar' hills
But now they're flashing dollar bills
Them hillbillies are mountain Williams now
Oh, they shook their boots and overalls
And even dropped their "How you-all"s
Them hillbillies are mountain Williams now
They left down home (They left down home!)
For a microphone (For a microphone!)
They made their dough (They made their dough)
On their annual (Wa-hee!)
Oh, they play guitars at cocktail bars
And ride around in motorcars
Them hillbillies are mountain Williams now
[Instrumental break, with vocalizing]
(OK Hezzie, play that, play!)
[Instrumental break continues, with vocalizing]
Them Hill-Billies Are Mountain Williams Now was written by Sammy Mysels & James Cavanaugh & Dick Sanford.