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