Lyrics Loving Her Was Easier - Bobby Bare

It all started in this little town way down in Texas
When I first heard ol' Johnny Cash singin' "Prison Blues"
I picked my guitar like a fool and read down country magazines
Keeping up to snuff on the Music City news

One Sunday morning found me there on the streets of Nashville
Hummin' out the chorus to my latest melody
I whooped it to old Tootsie's bar and told them local pickers
I done come to capture Music City, USA

Can't you hear the music ringin'?
Can't you hear the singers singin'?
Can't you hear somebody humming on my homemade melody?
The lost and found are searching here
And some new face from everywhere
Is come to capture Music City, USA

One Sunday evening found me, Lord
On a corner booth at Limebaugh's
Drinking black coffee and eating chili
Like Marty Robbins and Earnest Tubb

Except they're tuning up my guitar, Lord
I couldn't wait 'til Monday morning
Figured if I couldn't make it
Well, sure nobody could

Twelve years have come and gone and I'm still here in Nashville
Stompin' up and down 16th and 17th Avenue
Buggin' everybody here that I get to stop and listen
Tryin' hard to do all the things I've told my mom and dad
That's what I'm gonna do

Can't you hear the music ringin'
C?an't you hear the singers singin'?
Can't you hear somebody humming on a homemade melody?
The lost and found are searching here
And some new face from everywhere
Is come to capture Music City, USA