The sign says welcome to Nashville
From whatever road you've been down
It seems like the first of the milestones
For here is the city the town
It's a quaint old mystical city
Where idols and legends have stood
Port city where dreams come to harbor
A country boys Hollywood
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But it's lonely at sundown in Nashville
That's when beaten souls start to weep
Each evening at sundown in Nashville
They sweep broken dreams off the street
You walk down 16th to Broadway
You walk past the new Hall of Fame
And the record man with the big cigar
He never once asked me my name
You'll find some discarded love songs
And visions of fame on the ground
And pieces of dreams thats been shattered
They drift to the outskirts of town
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