Tennessee homesick
blues
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C ~ ~ + Ya de dee....
(4x)
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1. New York City ain't no
kind of place
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for a
country girl with a friendly face ,
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if
you smile people look at you funny, they take it wrong.
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The greenest state in the Land
of the Free,
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and
the home of the Grand Ole Opry
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is
calling me back to my Smoky Mountain home.
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2. I wish I had my old fishin' pole,
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and
was sitting on the banks of the fishing hole,
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eating
green apples and waiting for the fish to bite.
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Life ain't
as simple as it used to be,
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since
the Big Apple took a bite out of me,
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and
Lord, I'm so Tennessee homesick that I could die.
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But I ain't
been home and I don't know when,
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if I
had it all to do over again,
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tonight
I'd sleep in my old feather bed.
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What I wouldn't give for a
little bitty taste
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of
Mama's homemade chocolate cake,
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Tennessee homesick blues
running through my head.
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+ Ya de dee.... (2x)
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3. Mama, you can fluff my feather bed,
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just
as soon as I can, I'm gonna head
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back
to the Tennessee hills, and it better be soon.
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Daddy, you can load the rifles
up,
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we're
gonna load them dogs on the pickup truck,
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and
take off to Calhoun Country and catch us a coon.
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But I ain't
been home and I don't know when,
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if I
had it all to do over again,
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tonight
I'd sleep in my old feather bed.
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Eatin'
grits and gravy and country ham,
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go to
church on Sunday with dinner on the grounds,
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Tennessee homesick blues are runnin' through my head.
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And I ain't
been home and I don't know when,
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if I
had it all to do over again,
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tonight
I'd sleep in my old feather bed.
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Good Lord, have mercy on a
country girl
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tryin' to make a living in a rhinestone world,
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it's
hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world
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with
Tennessee homesick blues runnin' through my head.
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I've got those Tennessee
homesick blues runnin' through my head,
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Tennessee homesick blues !
(Dolly Parton)