[Verse 1]
Won't you please stop nagging me about that brand new dress?
You know, I've worked and done my best
Been saving my money for all these years
And when I get to Nashville, there'll be no more tears
Eating high on the hog
Putting on the dog
Buying everything in the new catalog

[Verse 2]
You know, all my life, I've picked and strummed
Why, there ain't a tune that I can't hum
And folks all said from near and far
That, someday, I'd be an Opry star
That's how I got you, honey
Why, you know'd I'd be in the money
Nevеr was no flies on you, gal

[Verse 3]
And you remembеr that time at the county seat
When I shook hands with Ernest Tubb?
And he liked that song I sung him too
'cause he asked me to send him a dub
And he called me "son". Remember that? "Son"!
Just like he knowed me all his life
That's my kind of folks
[Verse 4]
Why, you just look at the Nashville telephone book
They got publishers from A to Z
Darn near fills up one of them Yeller Pages
And all of 'em are waiting just for me
But they won't have to quarrel
I got enough songs for 'em all
And writing more every day too

[Verse 5]
[???] Hush up, little Roy Acuff cover I just know [???]
Can't you hear your Daddy's a-talking?
Wait 'til you hear this new one, hon
I wrote while I was out a-walking
Why, if that ain't just like a woman, she's fast asleep
While I'm a-working, she's a-dreaming
I'd have probably got to Nashville a long time ago
If she'd help me with my scheming
She never did have no ambition
Just sits around a-wishing
Wearing that funny little smile

[Verse 6]
Well, you just keep on dreaming, then
Someday, honey, those dreams are gonna all come true
Those things I promised when we was courting
In the moon, all tired and blue
You'll be proud of me
When I get to Nashville, Tennessee