chorus you don t like my music you don t like my songs you say you want to party you say you want to rock and roll that carbon copy music don t mean a damn to me hank williams wouldn t make it now in nashville tennessee nashville tennessee what happened to the music i loved so long ago it seems it s been forgotten on our country radio where a steel guitar and fiddle have become a novelty what i d give to make things like the way they used to be chorus gram parsons used to sing about the streets of baltimore honest words and simple rhymes don t sell much anymore some say that california is the place we ought to be cause all the barefoot texans miss the forest for the trees chorus that carbon copy music don t mean a damn to me hank williams wouldn t make it now in nashville tennessee nashville tennessee nashville tennessee