Where can you go to see the country music stars

That ' s what we come to Nashville for

No one comes around to play the pinball machines

Nobody eats at Linebaugh ' s anymore

Now the Opry ' s gone and the streets are bare

Ernest Tubb ' s record shop is dark

And the drunks are gone from the Merchant ' s Hotel

Everybody ' s gone to the park

Where can you go to see the country music stars

Sittin drinkin ' coffee ' til four

Shoney ' s closed at nine o ' clock; there ' s nothing left to do

Nobody eats at Linebaugh ' s anymore

Now the Opry ' s gone and the streets are bare

Ernest Tubb ' s record shop is dark

And the drunks are gone from the Merchant ' s Hotel

Everybody ' s gone to the park

Won ' t no one hear the phone ring - is Benny Martin there

Or watch to see who comes in through the door

' Cept the few that come around again to use the parking lot

Nobody eats at Linebaugh ' s anymore

Now the Opry ' s gone and the streets are bare

Ernest Tubb ' s record shop is dark

And the drunks are gone from the Merchant ' s Hotel

Everybody ' s gone to the park

Somewhere in the suburbs the Opry plays tonight

But the people come around to take the rides

The park shuts up at bedtime; there ' s nowheres else to go

Nobody eats at Linebaugh ' s anymore

Now the Opry ' s gone and the streets are bare

Ernest Tubb ' s record shop is dark

And the drunks are gone from the Merchant ' s Hotel

Everybody ' s gone to the park