From the recording A Good Dog Is Lost (A Collection Of Ron Hynes Songs)
Lyrics
Stranded in Nashville
I’m a boy from Old Perlican
I went busking down Broadway
I made four bucks American
And I’m homesick and I’m wishin’
I was still back home fishin’
But all of those times are gone
How strange to be
In Tennessee
Singing Newfoundland songs
I crossed over the border
‘neath the light from the starts
I had the luck of the Irish
Had my Daddy’s guitar
It was a Gibson J-45 gonna keep me alive
And comfort me midnight ’til dawn
How strange to be
In Tennessee
Singing Newfoundland songs
I know it isn’t Hank Williams
But I can sing him as well
Jimmie Rodgers’ Blue Yodel
I sing Lefty Frizzell
I’m a stranger here in Tennessee
I’m a boy from ‘round the bay
Yeah but I know how to sing boys
I know how to play
‘Cause my daddy taught me
Taught me these words
Taught me these chords
Taught me before he passed on
How strange to be
In Tennessee
Singing Hard Hard Times
Singing Kid on the Pond
If there’s one strange consolation
In these desperate times
All of these Nashville songwriters
Are all trying to look like Ron Hynes
How strange to be in Tennessee
Singing Newfounland songs