She's never in the spotlights But everybody knows That she's the star And once she shines upon you She'll make you truly proud Of where you are She'll wipe away the pain of all The dues you had to pay When the curtain to her world Starts to unfold With mother tender hand She will applaud And feed the hunger in your soul And she's known as the Grand Ole Opry Where the legend come to call She's the queen of country music She's the grandest lady of them all She sings of desperado's And lonesome whistle love And midnight train And the coal mines of Kentucky And how it feels To be out in the rain She sings of Texas cowboys Of hobos and of heroes And the loneliness Up where and prison blues But most of all she sings about The common people Just like me and you And she's known as the Grand Ole Opry Where the legend come to call She's the queen of country music She's the grandest lady of them all