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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Performer
Gary Scruggs
Background Vocals
Jeff Hanna
Background Vocals
Jimmy Ibbotson
Background Vocals
Jimmy Martin
Guitar
John McEuen
Banjo
Les Thompson
Mandolin
Ray Martin
Background Vocals
Roy Huskey
Bass
Vassar Clements
Fiddle
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Hylo Brown
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
William E. McEuen
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Come and listen to my story if you will I'm gonna tell
About a gang of fellers from down at Nashville
First I'll start with old Red Foley doin' the Chattanooga shoe"
We can't forget Hank Williams with them good old lovesick blues
[Verse 2]
It's time for Roy Acuff to go to Memphis on his train
With Minnie Pearl and Red Brasfield and Lazy Jim Day
Turn on all your radios I know that you will wait
Hear Little Jimmy Dickens sing take an old tater and wait
[Verse 3]
There'll be guitars and fiddles, Earl Scruggs and his banjo too
Bill Monroe singing out them old Kentucky blues
Ernest Tubb's number two wrongs won't make a right
At the Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night
[Verse 4]
There was Uncle Dave Macon his gold tooth and plug-hat
Cowboy Copas singing Tragic Romance
Singned sealed and delivered with Sam and Kirk McGee
And the master of ceremony was Mr. George D. Hays
[Verse 5]
There was Lonzo and Oscar a-poppin' bubble gum
George Morgan singin' Candy Kisses yum, yum
"got a hole in my bucket bringing in that Georgia mill
We'll sing the sunny side of the mountain and dance to the chicken reel
[Verse 6]
There'll be guitars and fiddles, Earl Scruggs and his banjo too
Bill Monroe singing out them old Kentucky blues
Ernest Tubb's number two wrongs won't make a right
At the Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night
[Verse 7]
You can talk about your singers in all kinds of way
But none could sing the old songs like Bradley Kincaid
With his old hound dog guitar and the famous blue tail fly
Stringbean with hank snow and old fiddling chubby wise
[Verse 8]
There'll be guitars and fiddles, Earl Scruggs and his banjo too
Bill Monroe singing out them old Kentucky blues
Ernest Tubb's number two wrongs won't make a right
At the Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night
Written by: Hylo Brown