VietNashville
By Houston Marchman
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I was just 22 when I hit the road
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Searching for truth, passion, and gold
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I had an old 6-string, beat up and cracked
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Hitched all they way and I wasn't coming back
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From Nashville , VietNashville
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I hit town in the middle of the night
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I walked 16th, stared at the lights
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My soul was on fire, passion it rose
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I had a young man's dream but I was an old man's fool
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There in Nashville, VietNashville
[Chorus]
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Gotta little harder, Lord every day
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Texas got farther and farther away
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From VietNashville, yeah VietNashville
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Well I started pushing my songs and knocking on doors
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Most everyday I felt more like a w***e
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A man said, "Son, son you gotta write
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For an 8th grade level divorced housewife here
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In Nashville,", VietNashville
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He said, "It's about money boy, money in the bank
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Country ain't into no existential angst
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Write for the cash, not for the soul."
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Right then I knew man I's bound to roll
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Outta Nashville, Yeah, VietNashville
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Yeah, Lord I found me this friend, I called him ponytailed Johnny
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Had hair to his ass, the pot made him melancholy
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Got us in this gig down on lower Broadway
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He told us bout a joint, man, they never could pay us
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In Nashville, VietNashville
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We'd play our songs, and play em some covers
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Their favorite tune was "Redneck Mother"
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We got fired one night down in Fort Sill
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To get out alive, I'd-a lost that bet
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When this big biker chick, she grabbed Johnny's hair
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I've never seen a woman get hit with a chair,
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hell, 'cept Nashville, Yeah, VietNashville, ohh Vietnashville
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Well, ten years later in the middle of the night
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I slipped out of town, but I was feelin' alright
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Nashville, I owe you a lesson in life
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Stand up for yourself and what you think?s right
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Play what you feel, play it straight up
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If you don't hear a single, man, I don't give a f**k
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About Nashville, Yeah, VietNashville