Song Description

Tongue-in-cheek look at pop vs. country in Nashville, TN

Lyrics

WE DON'T WEAR BOOTS IN NASHVILLE
(Leroy Young)

(Slow Intro)
I dreamed I walked through Nashville, Music Row up to Broadway
I was looking for country singers and those country songs they?d play
But in my dream I kept hearing them say:

WE DON'T WEAR BOOTS IN NASHVILLE
We don't wear cowboy hats
We don't line dance, don't square dance
Don't do country things like that
We don't say 'ya'll' with a southern drawl
We kinda lost that down-home feel
We walk the walk and we talk the talk
But WE DON'T WEAR BOOTS IN NASHVILLE

If it has twang, it ain't our thang
We write middle-of-the-road for the masses
If it don't cross over, it's all over
And another rising pop star flops and crashes (cause)
(repeat chorus)

We got corporate logos, on our Volvos
Oh, we're off to do some schmoozing power lunches
We got a chain of stations, across the nation
Where we pick our own Top Ten based on hunches

Is this a dream or is it real
I have some friends here, who already feel, that

(repeat chorus)

We walk the walk, we talk the talk
But WE DON'T WEAR BOOTS IN NASHVILLE

And in my dream the country group of the year was "Boyz 2 Bubba"! And in my dream the country duo of the year was P. Diddy and Dunn!
Cause WE DON'T WEAR BOOTS IN NASHVILLE
WE DON'T WEAR BOOTS IN NASHVILLE

Copyright 2005 Leroy Young 615-223-1917