Nobody saw him running from sixteenth avenue.
They never found the fingerprint or the weapon that was used.
But someone k**ed country music, cut out its heart and soul.
They got away with murder down on music row.
The almighty dollar and the lust for worldwide fame
Slowly k**ed tradition and for that someone should hang (oh, you tell them Alan).
They all say not guilty, but the evidence will show
That murder was committed down on music row.
Chorus:
For the steel guitars no longer cry and fiddles barely play,
But drums and rock
Old Hank wouldn
Since they committed murder down on music row.
They thought no one would miss it, once it was dead and gone
They said no one would buy them old drinking and cheating songs (I
Well there ain
Murder
Chorus:
Oh, the steel guitars no longer cry and you can
With drums and rock
Why, the Hag, he wouldn
Since they committed murder down on music row
Why, they even tell the Possum to pack up and go back home
There