It'd be just another river town
Streets would have a different sound
There'd be no honky tonks with whiskey rounds
No dreamers chasing dreams down

No tourists taken in the sights
No Stetsons under Broadway lights
No pickers playing for pocket change
No rhinestone boots on an old church stage

Hey 'Blue Eyes, Crying In The Rain'
Hey fire, burning round the ring
Hey crazy, you know it's true
That Nashville, wouldn't be Nashville, without you

No ghost of the 'Man In Black'
No long white Cadillac
No woman standing by her man
In the place where it all began

Hey Good Looking, hey 'Momma Tried'
Hey Gambler, hey 'Country Boy Can Survive'
Hey Jolene, you know it's true
That Nashville, wouldn't be Nashville, without you

Hey Georgia, hey Smokey Mountain Rain
Hey Galveston, 'He Stopped Loving Her Today'
Hey Fancy, you know it's true
That Nashville, wouldn't have 'Blue Eyes, Crying In The Rain'

Hey fire, burning round the ring
Hey crazy, you know it's true
That Nashville, wouldn't be Nashville, without you

It'd be just another river town
Streets would have a different sound