Oh, I love this city Everybody’s got a song It’s like a secret we were always meant to share From the church on every corner To the broadway honky-tonks We’ve got a million songs that mingle in the air And oh, I love this city
Well the bus rolled into Nashville It parked on holy ground Beside the red brick of the mother church of country For a hundred years the hardwood here’s been soaking up the sound And now the stage, it feels, is sacred as a Sunday
And oh, I love this city Everybody’s got a song Everybody’s got a song And oh, it sounds so pretty when everybody sings along We’ve been gone a couple weeks now Playing for the crowds Sometimes they’re looking back as if they know me well But tonight I know my family and my friends are in the house And I just need the story only you can tell
And oh, I love this city Everybody’s got a song Everybody’s got a song And oh, it sounds so pretty when everybody sings along
Well there’s a dark night in the skyline We’ve got cattle in the fields and we’ve got Parthenons And puppet shows and poets And when the river is in flood With all the sorrow that you feel Well, we’ve got just the song you need I think you know it It’s a song that came before us It’s gonna be here when we’re gone Sometimes I think I hear it drifting on the wind And it tells me there’s a city where the band plays on and on And every soul is gonna sing the last amen
And oh, I love that city Everybody’s got a song Everybody’s got a song And oh, it sounds so pretty when everybody sings along (It is well, it is well) (With my soul, with my soul) (It is well, it is well with my soul)