The title track of 1973’s Nutbush City Limits was the first hit song Tina Turner wrote, and signaled a shift in her career from creative reliance on her abusive husband Ike. A year later she would record her first solo album.
‘Nutbush City Limits’ is a tribute to Tina’s Tennessee hometown. I can’t imagine tourism to the rural town increasing after these lyrics hit the airwaves, but it must be cool for any community to have a signature song.
The song inspired a dance that took off in, of all places, Australia. Here’s a video of a charming Aussie man demonstrating several versions of the dance. The dance caught on again a few years ago on TikTok.
[Note: Happy Birthday to daily commenter Dana!]
A church house gin house
A school house outhouse
On highway number nineteen
The people keep the city clean
[Refrain]
They call it Nutbush
Oh, Nutbush
Call it Nutbush city limits
[Verse 2]
Twenty-five was the speed limit
Motorcycle not allowed in it
You go to the store on Fridays
You go to church on Sundays
[Refrain]
They call it Nutbush, a little old town
Oh, Nutbush
They call it Nutbush city limit
[Verse 3]
You go to the fields on weekdays
And have a picnic on Labor Day
You go to town on Saturdays
But go to church every Sunday
[Refrain]
They call it Nutbush
Oh, Nutbush
They call it Nutbush city limits
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 4]
No whiskey for sale
You get caught, no bail
Salt pork and molasses
Is all you get in jail
[Refrain]
They call it Nutbush
Oh, Nutbush
Well, they call it Nutbush city
Nutbush city limits
[Outro]
Little old town in Tennessee that’s called
Quiet little old community
A one-horse town
You have to watch
What you’re puttin’ down
In old Nutbush
They call it Nutbush
Meet Me In Montauk 
Not familiar with this one. Happy Birthday Dana 🎉
Never heard this one either, but thank you for the birthday shoutout.