The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #39654   Message #2406226
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-Aug-08 - 11:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Nashville Cats (John B. Sebastian)
Subject: Lyr Add: NOSHVILLE KATZ (from The Lovin' Cohens)
Here's my transcription of the "video" at YouTube.

NOSHVILLE KATZ
As sung by The Lovin' Cohens.

CHORUS: Noshville Katz. He runs a kosher deli.
Noshville Katz, the only place in town.
Noshville Katz, it's not like you're in Brooklyn.
Noshville Katz, the only one around.

Well, there's thirteen-hundred and fifty-two different restaurants in Nashville,
And you can eat anything from a hominy grit to a Contac time-pill,
But there's only one place to get a half-sour pickle or a corned-beef sandwich in Nashville.
Just ask anybody how to get to Katz's if you're lookin' to eat well.

About a year ago, it was impossible to find a kosher delicatessen,
And the people said, "Mr. Katz, won't you open up a place to fress in?"
Well, it was a good idea for a Brooklyn boy to bring a kosher deli to Nashville,
And when his bubbeh asked him who would eat his food, he said, "The Tennessee folks will."

They call him—CHORUS.

Have a yiddisher dish, a potato knish, or a bagel with cream cheese,
A little chicken soup, or gefilte fish, with some carrots and green peas.
If you can get through that, have a little chopped liver, or a piece of herring in wine sauce,
Then you can wash it down with a Doctor Brown. Shouldn't be a total loss.
Eat, darling, eat!

CHORUS.

SPOKEN: They also cater bar mitzvahs.