[Verse 1]
It'd be just another river town
Streets would have a different sound
There'd be no honky tonks with whiskey rounds
No dreamers chasing dreams down

[Verse 2]
No tourists taking in the sights
No stetsons under Broadway lights
No pickers playing for pocket change
No rhinestone boots on an old church stage

[Verse 3]
Hey blue eyes, cryin' in the rain
Hey fire, burnin' round the ring
Hey crazy, you know it's true
That Nashville, wouldn't be Nashville, without you

[Verse 4]
No ghost of the man in black
No long white Cadillac
No woman standing by her man
In the place where it all began

[Verse 5]
Hey good lookin', hey mama tried
Hey gambler, hey country boy can survive
Hey Jolene, you know it's true
That Nashville, wouldn't be Nashville, without you
[Verse 6]
Hey Georgia, hey smoky mountain rain
Hey Galveston, he stopped loving her today
Hey fancy, you know it's true
That Nashville, wouldn't have
Blue eyes, cryin' in the rain
Hey fire, burnin' round the ring
Hey crazy, you know it's true
That Nashville, wouldn't be Nashville, without you

[Outro]
It'd be just another river town
Streets would have a different sound