Grand Ole Opry Song

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[Verse 1]
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Come and listen to my story if you will I'm gonna tell
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About a gang of fellers from down at Nashville
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First I'll start with old Red Foley doin' the "Chattanooga Shoe"
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We can't forget Hank Williams with them good old "Lovesick Blues"

[Verse 2]
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It's time for Roy Acuff to go to Memphis on his train
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With Minnie Pearl and Rod Brasfield and Lazy Jim Day
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Turn on all your radios I know that you will wait
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Hear Little Jimmy Dickens sing "take an old cold tater and wait"

[Chorus]
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There'll be guitars and fiddles, Earl Scruggs and his banjo too
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Bill Monroe singing out them old "Kentucky Blues"
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Ernest Tubb's number "Two Wrongs Won't Make A Right"
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At the Grand Ole Opry ev'ry saturday night

[Fiddle solo]
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[Verse 3]
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There was Uncle Dave Macon his gold tooth and plug-hat
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Cowboy Copas singing "Tragic Romance"
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Signed sealed and delivered with Sam and Kirk McGee
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And the master of ceremony was Mr. George D. Hays

[Verse 4]
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There was Lonzo and Oscar a-poppin' bubble gum
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George Morgan singin' "Candy Kisses" yum yum
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"Got A Hole In My Bucket" "Bringin' In That Georgia Mill"
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We'll sing "The Sunny Side Of The Mountain" and dance to the "Chicken Reel"

[Chorus]
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There'll be guitars and fiddles, and banjo pickin' too
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Bill Monroe singing out them old "Kentucky Blues"
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Ernest Tubb's number "Two Wrongs Won't Make A Right"
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At the Grand Ole Opry ev'ry saturday night

[Banjo solo]
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[Verse 4]
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You can talk about your singers in all kinds of way
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But none could sing the old songs like Bradley Kincaid
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With his old hound dog guitar and the famous "Blue Tail Fly"
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Stringbean with Hank Snow and old fiddlin' Chubby Wise

[Chorus]
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There'll be guitars and fiddles, Earl Scruggs and his banjo too
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Bill Monroe singing out them old "Kentucky Blues"
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Ernest Tubb's number "Two Wrongs Won't Make A Right"
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At the Grand Ole Opry ev'ry saturday night