Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Grand Ole Opry Song

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band


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

It's time for Roy Acuff to go to Memphis on his train 
With Minnie Pearl and Rod Brasfield and Lazy Jim Day 
Turn on all your radios I know that you will wait 
Hear Little Jimmy Dickens sing "Take An Old Cold Tater And
Wait" 

There'll be guitars and fiddles, Earl Scruggs and his banjo too 
Bill Monroe singing out them ole Kentucky Blues 
Ernest Tubb's number "Two wrongs won't make a right" 
At the Grand Ole Opry ev'ry saturday night 

There was Uncle Dave Macon his gold tooth and plug-hat 
Cowboy Copas singing "Tragic Romance" 
Signed Sealed and Delivered with Sam and Kirk McGee 
And the master of ceremony was Mr. George D. Hays 

There was Lonzo and Oscar a-poppin' bubble gum 
George Morgan singin' "Candy Kisses" Yum Yum 
"Got a Hole in My Bucket" "Bringin' in That
Georgia Mill" 
We'll sing "The Sunny Side of The Mountain" and dance
to the "Chicken Reel" 

There'll be guitars and fiddles and banjo pickin' too 
Bill Monroe singin' out them ole Kentucky Blues  
Ernest Tubb's number too wrongs won't make a right 
At the Grand Ole Opry ev'ry saturday night 

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

There'll be guitars and fiddles, Earl Scruggs and his banjo too 
Bill Monroe singin' out them ole Kentucky Blues 
Ernest Tubb's number "Two Wrongs Don't Make a right" 
At the Grand Ole Opry ev'ry Saturday night