Roy Acuff Nero Played His Fiddle (While Rome Burnt)

Nero Played His Fiddle (While Rome Burnt)

Roy Acuff

Lyrics




Nero was a king, you know,
Many many years ago.
Nero loved his music, so
Bought a fiddle and a bow.
Room enough for Nero,
No, he never was a hero!
Rome was burnt to zero,
Still he fiddled away!
To his soldiers he said, "I'm
Busy having a big time!
With my Latin in jig time,
What survives today?".
So Nero never went to town
While Rome was burnin' down.
They watched him, in dismay,
Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle away!
Oh, Rome meant nothin' to Nero,
He was never a hero!
He must have been a zero,
'Cause he fiddled away!
Now listen!
Nero spent some of his dough
For a fiddle and a bow.
That's how Nero made his name,
Landed in the Hall Of Fame.
Come on Nero!
(Yes!)
(Oh stop, Nero, you fiddling now, don't do that!)
(Yes! ha-ha!)
Rome meant nothin' to Nero,
He never was a hero!
Rome fell to zero,
'Cause he fiddled away!
Nero spent some of his dough,
Fiddle and a bow.
That's how he made his name,
Landed in the Hall Of Fame.
(Come here Nero, I gotcha!)




Roy Acuff - Night Train to Memphis
Album Night Train to Memphis
date of release
26-02-2014

1   Wabash Cannonball
2   The Night Spots (Of the Town)
3   The Wreck on the Highway
4   Streamline Heartbreaker
5   Goodbye Mr Brown
6   I'm Planting A Rose
7   Crazy Worried Mind
8   The Thief Upon the Tree
9   Mule Skinner Blues
10   Weary River
11   What Will I Do
12   Tied Down
13   Is It Love or Is It Lies
14   Lonesome Joe
15   I Like Mountain Music
16   How Beautiful Heaven Must Be
17   Little Moses
18   So Many Times
19   Ida Red
20   One Old Shirt
21   Yes Sir, That's My Baby
22   Old Age Pension Cheque
23   Thank God
24   Charming Betsy
25   Honky Tonk Mamas
26   Steamboat Whistle Blues
27   An Old Three Room Shack
28   Hold to God's Unchanging Hand
29   Just to Ease My Worried Mind
30   It's Hard to Love
31   The Great Judgement Morning
32   Freight Train Blues
33   Don't Judge Neighbor
34   Fireball Mail (Version 2)
35   Uncloudy Day
36   The One I Love (Is Gone)
37   (Today) My Love Came Back to Me
38   Answer to Sparkling Brown Eyes
39   Red Lips
40   Where the Soul Never Dies
41   Doin' It the Old Fashioned Way
42   New Greenback Dollar
43   You've Gotta See Mama Every Night
44   My Mountain Home Sweet Home
45   Bonnie Blue-Eyes
46   What Would You Do With Gabriel's Trumpet
47   Blue Ridge Sweetheart
48   Once More
49   Mother Hold Me Tight
50   Oh Those Tombs
51   That's What Makes the Jukebox Play
52   I Closed My Heart's Door
53   Rushing Around
54   Wabash Cannonball (Version 2)
55   Pins and Needles (In My Heart) (Version 2)
56   The Precious Jewel (Version 2)
57   The Wreck on the Highway (Version 2)
58   Come Back Little Pal
59   I'm Building a Home (In the Sky)
60   Shake My Mother's Hand for Me
61   Where Could I Go but to the Lord
62   Lord Build Me a Cabin
63   This World Is Not My Home
64   Searchin' For Happiness
65   I Don't Care (If You Don't Love Me)
66   They'll Never Take Her Love from Me
67   Don't Know Why
68   Nero Played His Fiddle (While Rome Burnt)
69   Whoa Mule
70   Sweep Around Your Back Door
71   Swamp Lily
72   Don't Say Goodbye
73   Sixteen Chickens and a Tambourine
74   Write Me Sweetheart
75   Fireball Mail
76   The Precious Jewel
77   Wait For the Light To Shine
78   Pins And Needles (In My Heart)
79   Low and Lonely
80   The Great Speckled Bird
81   Lonely Mound of Clay
82   Night Train To Memphis
83   The Great Titanic
84   Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
85   Jesus Died for Me
86   Take My Hand, Precious Lord
87   Thanks For Not Telling Me
88   Great Speckle Bird
89   Come And Knock (On The Door Of My Heart)
90   Steel Guitar Blues
91   You're the Only Star In My Blue Heaven
92   When I Lay My Burden Down
93   Sunshine Special
94   Along the China Coast




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