xJohn Hiatt » Tennessee Plates
I worked long on this tab and I’m pretty sure it’s correct. Play this terrific
song from the “Slow Turning” album
4X INTRO: EEEA / EEBE
E A
I woke up in a hotel and I didn't know what to do
E B E
I turned the TV on and wrote a letter to you
E A
The news was talkin' 'bout a dragnet up on the interstate
E B E
Said they were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
INTRO: EEEA / EEBE
E A
Since I left California baby, things have gotten worse
E B E
Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse
E A
Tell that judge in Bakersfield that my trial will have to wait
E B E
Down here they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
A
It was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside
E
She was shiverin' in the dark, so I offered her a ride
A
Three bank jobs later, four cars hot wired
B
We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire
INTRO: EEEA / EEBE
E A
If they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't 'a let us in
E B E
When we landed in Memphis like original sin
E A
Up Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates
E B E
See we were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
2X iNTRO: EEEA / EEBE
E A
Well, there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage
E B E
And there wasn't one Lincoln and there wasn't one Dodge
E A
And there wasn't one Japanese model or make
E B E
Just pretty, pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates
A
She saw him singing once when she was seventeen
E
And ever since that day she's been living in between
A
I was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend
B
Anyway he wouldn't care, hell he gave them to his friends + INSTR. A E (B E)
E E
Well this ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from / It's the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain
E A(build up) E (stop) AE A E / B E
Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight … / Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates
