Chet, You're The Reason - The Statler Brothers

There was a group of little guys grew up together

In the fifties when rock and roll was hot

And every time they turned on a radio station

Chuck Berry and Little Richard was all they got

And then one night they heard the country gentleman

Playing something new in a brand new way

Chet would you play

Still hear him today

Chet you’re the reason we’re country today

We only met but never got to know him

Till our first TV special years ago

So then we called and asked him

If he’d come by and do a little picking on our show

And there we sat in front of all America

Like we used to sit in front of our radios

Chet would you play

Still hear him today

Chet you’re the reason we’re country today

Chet you’re the reason we’re country today