I went down to Nashville on a Saturday night

To see the Barn Dance Jubilee

Well, I met a boy with a flat top guitar

He really picked the blues for me, oh Lord

He really picked the blues for me

I asked him if he knew a song called "Alabam'"

Or a song about sunny Tennessee

He said he thought he might and Lordy what a sight

When he played that flat top for me, oh Lord

When he played that flat top for me

Some people like songs about the mountains

And others about the deep blue sea

Just give me that old boy and his flat top guitar

And let him pick the blues for me, yes

Let him pick the blues for me

If you ever come to Nashville on a Saturday night

Be sure and see that Barn Dance Jubilee

You will hear the fiddles sing and the banjos they will ring

And the flat top will play the blues for me

And the flat top will play the blues for me