Tennessee

Mel Tillis

Written by Sonny Curtis

Key of G · Chords: I II IV V

Verse 1

G
How I love to hear your old guitar
        C
Singing through the rocks and trees
     D7                            G         D7      G
Your banjo’s making honey with the rose buds and the bees
                        C                G           C
Your children whistling Dixie while they learn their ABC’s
             G                 D7         G    C G
And old time fiddlers fiddling golden memories

Verse 2

                                              C
Don’t you love to see the dogwoods wear their bridal bell in spring
    D7                           G       D7  G
The gentle virgin passion making love to evergreens
                   C                  G
While summer regal beauty waits there quietly in the wind
C        G                D7                G
With one magic breath she makes the flowers sing

Verse 3

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But the Tennessee I love is in the people I’m part of
     G                                A7              D7
Just down to earth good country folks they’re my Tennessee
   G           C                G                   C
Oh Tennessee I love you and I’m proud to be part of you
  G                D7           G
I sure am glad God gave us Tennessee

Verse 4

                                        C
As I look back down the winding road of life here’s what I see
    D7                            G     D7     G
The dreams of all my yesterdays a total sum of me
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From childhood trails and swimming holes to what I’ve grown to be
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I owe the biggest part of me to Tennessee

Verse 5

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So when my final day of sunshine takes me to my destiny
D7                              G
Remember I enjoyed myself don’t fuss much over me
                  C               G               C
Just put me on my farm beneath my favorite willow tree
              G              D7            G    C G
Right next to heaven here in good old Tennessee

Verse 3

                    C              G               C
But the Tennessee I love is in the people I’m part of
     G                                A7              D7
Just down to earth good country folks they’re my Tennessee
   G           C                G                   C
Oh Tennessee I love you and I’m proud to be part of you
  G                D7           G
I sure am glad God gave us Tennessee

Verse 3

                    C              G               C
But the Tennessee I love is in the people I’m part of
     G                                A7              D7
Just down to earth good country folks they’re my Tennessee
   G           C                G                   C
Oh Tennessee I love you and I’m proud to be part of you
  G                D7           G
I sure am glad God gave us Tennessee