Welcome to Nashville, Asshole!

Written by Jubal Lee Young

Welcome to Nashville Tennessee

Music City USA

Then we became the “It City” and the money rolled in

Our Southern charm slowly slipped away

Everybody sorta used to know everyone

They called us the “little big town”

Now y’all might have more money than the Vatican, honey

But quit calling my home a “tear-down”

The kind of folks I used to know

Can’t afford to live here anymore

The very people that made up this town’s soul

Now it’s all out of state plates and daddy’s money dreams

Laying on the horn soon as the light turns green

But by all means

Welcome to Nashville, asshole

There was one hot chicken place (Prince’s!)

For nigh on 100 years or more

Then there were like two til the 2010s

Now there’s three hundred and four

They’re tearing down my memories again

And putting in another high rise

The locals all bitch, then they sell and get rich

Since they never had a crack at wise

The kind of folks I used to know

Can’t afford to live here anymore

The very people that made up this town’s soul

Now there’s a lot of east coast bluster and California dreams

Laying on the horn soon as the light turns green

But by all means

Welcome to Nashville, asshole

Deep in a pothole, after a rain

They finally found Amelia Earhart’s plane

And nobody even gave a damn

It was just another Nashville traffic jam

The kind of folks I used to know

Can’t afford to live here anymore

The very people that made up this town’s soul

Now we’ve got Michigan rust and Florida real estate schemes

Laying on the horn soon as the light turns green

But by all means

Welcome to Nashville, asshole

But by all means

Welcome to Nashville, asshole

Asshole!