Song Description

A novelty song comparing country and classical music.

Lyrics

Mozart wrote his first song
When he was only three
But when I was that age
You know just wasn?t me
I like things to be simple
Like living in the country
And that?s where I wrote
My hillybilly symphony

I wrote a hillybilly symphony
Steel Guitars wailing in back of me
The fiddle moans out a lonesome sound
Mandolins picking fast and clean
And a guitar playing in between
That is how that I did write my symphony

Beethoven lived long ago
And wrote some symphonies
But in the end he went deaf
And couldn?t hear you see
But if he could have heard
A banjo playing then
He would have changed his sound
And he?d be a hillybilly man

He?d write a hillybilly symphony
Steel Guitars wailing in back of me
The fiddle moans out a lonesome sound
Mandolins picking fast and clean
And a guitar playing in between
That is how he would write his symphony

Brahms did right a lullaby
Bach invented quite a few
But from the moment I heard a steel guitar
I knew what I?d do

I?d write a hillybilly symphony
Steel Guitars wailing in back of me
The fiddle moans out a lonesome sound
Mandolins picking fast and clean
And a guitar playing in between
That is how I would write my symphony