Tennessee 1949

Larry Sparks

Written by David Norris

Key of A · Chords: I II IV V

Verse 1 A

A                D              A
I wonder if it's rainin' in the mountains
                 D                A
I wonder how the old town looks to-day
    D                                 A
And if the church is there beside the river
      B7                            E
Could I go back and find where mama lay

Verse 1 B

     A                D                A
Does life still go to sleep just after sunset
                         A7         D
Are the berries still as big on the vine
                                  A
Do old men sit and talk about the old days
                    E             A
The way they did in nineteen forty-nine

Chorus

   A7     D
Oh Oh, Oh how I'd like to be
A                    E        E7
Back in the hills of Tennessee
A  A7     D
Oh Oh, Oh it would be so fine
   A               E                A
If I could just go back to nineteen forty-nine

Verse 2 A

A              D                     A
I wonder if by chance they might re- -member
                 D              A
A teenage boy so wild and fancy free
    D                                A
Who always loved guitars and country music
   B7                              E
If I went back would they remember me

Verse 2 B

  A             D                A
I wonder what be-came of Kathryn Ackers
                      A7            D
The girl who broke my heart at seven-teen
                               A
I barely can remember what she looks like
              E             A
Thirty years ago she was my dream

Chorus

   A7     D
Oh Oh, Oh how I'd like to be
A                    E        E7
Back in the hills of Tennessee
A  A7     D
Oh Oh, Oh it would be so fine
   A               E                A
If I could just go back to nineteen forty-nine

Verse 3

    A               D                       A
For many years I've searched the wide world over
                     D                A
For what I don't re- -call and didn't find
    D                                A
And now I'm searching pictures in my memory
                 E              A
For Tennessee in nineteen forty-nine

Chorus

   A7     D
Oh Oh, Oh how I'd like to be
A                    E        E7
Back in the hills of Tennessee
A  A7     D
Oh Oh, Oh it would be so fine
   A               E                A
If I could just go back to nineteen forty-nine