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LOL! That's in 1967 dollars. There's well over 5,000 pickers in Nashville after adjusting for inflation.

[Stultis]

Admittedly, the song isn't entirely consistent. If "there's sixteen thousand eight hundred twenty one mothers from Nashville," whose friends "all" play music, then how is "thirteen hundred and fifty two Guitar pickers" enough to go around, considering that each mother has as few as 3 or 4 friends?

Of course not all friends of Nashville mothers will necessarily play "clean as country water," "wild as mountain dew," or be able to "pick more notes than the number of ants on a Tennessee anthill," and some Nashville mothers may have guitar pickin' friends in common, but we haven't even begun to apportion pickers to women without children.