| Help me Merle, I’m breakin' out in a Nashville rash
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| It’s a-looking like I’m fallin in the cracks
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| I’m too country now for country, just like Johnny Cash
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| Help me Merle, I’m breakin' out in a Nashville rash
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| Shoulda known it when they closed the Opry down
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| Things are bound to change in that town
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| You can’t grow when you rip the roots out of the ground
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| Looks like that Nashville rash is getting' 'round
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| Chorus
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| Ain’t it funny how things can really change
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| Rock and roll back in the 70's are country hits today
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| Breaks my heart to see my heros fadin' away
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| The victims of Nashville rash, it’s Nashville’s ways
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| Chorus 2:
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| Help me Merle, I’m breakin' out in a Nashville rash
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| It’s a-looking like I’m fallin in the cracks
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| I’m too country now for country, just like Johnny Cash
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| And Buck Ownes and Faron Young and Johnny Bush
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| Ad Johnny Paycheck and Charley Pride and Loretta Lynn, Mmmmmmm
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| Help me Merle, I’m breakin' out in a Nashville rash
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| Aw good god it’s gonna be the death of us |