C
F
G7
C
Well I left home at a crack of dawn just about a year ago
F
G7
C
I thumbed my way cross the USA and I learned a lot I didn’t know
F
G7
C
The Promised Land that I thought I’d find was always just ahead of me
F
G7
C
Until one day when I realized I left it back in Tennessee
G7
And that’s why I’m going back to my Tennessee girl
F
C
And a Tennessee way of life
G7
And I’m gonna ask my Tennessee girl
F
C
To be my Tennessee wife
F
G7
C
By night I slept in a hobo camp working odd jobs by day
F
G7
C
I never got enough to get ahead just enough to make my way
F
G7
C
Cold and tired when the evening comes all I had to ease my mind
F
G7
C
Was thinking bout the place I started from and the girl that I left behind
G7
And that’s why I’m going back to my Tennessee girl
F
C
And a Tennessee way of life
G7
And I’m gonna ask my Tennessee girl
F
C
To be my Tennessee wife
F
G7
C
There ain’t no place that I been at all that I was gonna settle in
F
G7
C
And every town that I travel through made me wanna go home again
F
G7
C
The green green grass and the rolling hills seem to keep a calling me
F
G7
C
Back to the place where I was born and the girl that I long to see
G7
And that’s why I’m going back to my Tennessee girl
F
C
And a Tennessee way of life
G7
And I’m gonna ask my Tennessee girl
F
C
To be my Tennessee wife
F
G7
C
