Tennessee Hound Dog

Written by Boudleaux Bryant, Felice Bryant

Key of E · Chords: I III IV V VI VII i vi

Verse 1

   E                  C#m
He looks like skin on a bone pile
  E                     C#m
A cat wouldn’t give him a chance
    E                 G
But When he stretches his long legs out
  C             G
A fox ain’t got a cahnce
          Em    D   Em
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Verse 2

    E     C#m
Sad faced mooneyed creature
    E                 C#m
His ears hang down to his knees
    E                   G
The she hounds call him a has been
   C             G
An old aged home for fleas
          Em    D   Em
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Verse 3

    A
But when he gets a certain kind of look on his face
    A
The she hounds run for a hiding place
    A
Cuz when he takes a notion all the girl dogs know
     B                             B7
He’s a dynamite up tite outa sight backyard romeo

Verse 4

   E               C#m
He looks like ugly warmed over
     E               C#m
Some dog lovers have said that
    E             G
But he’s got more sense in the end of his nose
     C              G
That they’ve got in their head
          Em    D   Em
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