Kindly keep it country
Don't want to hear no symphony
Just rear back and let them play
Them good old songs for me
Don't be hitting them fancy licks
Just stick to the melody
Kindly keep it country
That's good enough for me
Out in Oklahoma
When Saturday rolled around
Everybody went to the legion hall
About ten miles out of town
We played them country music
They was dancing by the hour
We turned that fiddle loose on one
And picked the "Wildwood Flower"
We'd get a little more progressive
Danced them around the clock
Steel man doubled on the saxophonе
And the drummer sang a little rock
Piano man playеd some way out things
I guess we got carried away
And before too long
It didn't catch on
Together you could hear them say
Kindly keep it country
Don't want to hear no symphony
Just rear back and let them play
Them good old songs for me
Don't be hitting them fancy licks
Just stick to the melody
Kindly keep it country
That's good enough for me
Old Okie Joe was a country fan
He was there on a Saturday night
He sidled up to the bandstand
He'd tell them how to play it right
He said, "Kindly keep it country
Don't want to hear no rock and roll
None of that fancy uptown jazz
And none of that stuff called soul
Don't want to hear no clarinet
And none of that slide trombone
They ain't no room for no bassoon
No bugles or no xylophone
Just stay with the strings and let them ring
And get in close to the mic
Loud and strong play it long
That's the kind of band that I like"
Kindly keep it country
Don't want to hear no symphony
Just rear back and let them play
Them good old songs for me
Don't be hitting them fancy licks
Just stick to the melody
Kindly keep it country
That's good enough for me
Some folks dropped by from way back east
On their way out to Disneyland
But the fellow they asked
When they stopped for gas
Recommended our country band
We played them a waltz, we do-si-do'ed
We got them up on their toes
Did they applaud when we ah-haw'ed
To the "San Antonio Rose"
And when those folks finally get back home
To the opera at Carnegie Hall
After that Saturday night with us
It won't be no fun at all
Now I wouldn't be a bit surprised
If halfway through the play
If they walk up to that orchestra pit
Everybody'd hear them say
Kindly keep it country
Don't want to hear no symphony
Just rear back and let them play
Them good old songs for me
Don't be hitting them fancy licks
Just stick to the melody
Kindly keep it country
That's good enough for me
Kindly keep it country
That's good enough for me