C
New York City ain't no kind of place
F
For a country girl with a friendly face
C G7 F C
If you smile people look at you funny they take it wrong
The greenest state in the land of the free
F
And the home of the Grand Ole Opry
C G7 F C
Is calling me back to my Smoky Mountain home
I wish I had my old fishing pole
F
And was sitting on the banks of the fishing hole
C G7 F C
Eating green apples and waiting for the fish to bite
Life ain't as simple as it used to be
F
Since the big apple took a bite out of me
C G7 F C
And Lord I'm so Tennessee homesick that I could die
F C
But I ain't been home in I don't know when
F C
If I had it all to do over again
G7 F C
Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
F C
What I wouldn't give for a little bitty taste
F C
Of Mama's homemade chocolate cake
G7 F C
Tennessee homesick blues running through my head
Mama you can fluff my feather bed
F
Just as soon as I can I'm gonna head
C G7 F C
Back to the Tennessee hills and it better be soon
Daddy you can load the rifles up
F
We're gonna load them dogs on the pickup truck
C G7 F C
And head off to Calhoun County and catch us a coon
F C
But I ain't been home in I don't know when
F C
If I had it all to do over again
G7 F C
Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
F C
Eating grits and gravy and country ham
F C
Go to church on Sunday with dinner on the grounds
G7 F C
Tennessee homesick blues are running through my head
F C
And I ain't been home in I don't know when
F C
If I had it all to do over again
G7 F
Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
C F C
Good Lord have mercy on a country girl
E7 F
Trying to make a living in a rhinestone world
Am G7 F
It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world
C G7 F
With Tennessee homesick blues running through my head
C G7 F
I've got those Tennessee homesick blues running through my head
C
Tennessee homesick blues
