Tennessee Homesick Blues Chords
by Dolly Parton
Tennessee Homesick Blues by Dolly Parton is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, G7, E7 and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C
New York City ain't no kind of place
F
For a country girl with a friendly face
C G7 F C
If you smile people look at you funny they take it wrong
The greenest state in the land of the free
F
And the home of the Grand Ole Opry
C G7 F C
Is calling me back to my Smoky Mountain home
I wish I had my old fishing pole
F
And was sitting on the banks of the fishing hole
C G7 F C
Eating green apples and waiting for the fish to bite
Life ain't as simple as it used to be
F
Since the big apple took a bite out of me
C G7 F C
And Lord I'm so Tennessee homesick that I could die
F C
But I ain't been home in I don't know when
F C
If I had it all to do over again
G7 F C
Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
F C
What I wouldn't give for a little bitty taste
F C
Of Mama's homemade chocolate cake
G7 F C
Tennessee homesick blues running through my head
Mama you can fluff my feather bed
F
Just as soon as I can I'm gonna head
C G7 F C
Back to the Tennessee hills and it better be soon
Daddy you can load the rifles up
F
We're gonna load them dogs on the pickup truck
C G7 F C
And head off to Calhoun County and catch us a coon
F C
But I ain't been home in I don't know when
F C
If I had it all to do over again
G7 F C
Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
F C
Eating grits and gravy and country ham
F C
Go to church on Sunday with dinner on the grounds
G7 F C
Tennessee homesick blues are running through my head
F C
And I ain't been home in I don't know when
F C
If I had it all to do over again
G7 F
Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
C F C
Good Lord have mercy on a country girl
E7 F
Trying to make a living in a rhinestone world
Am G7 F
It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world
C G7 F
With Tennessee homesick blues running through my head
C G7 F
I've got those Tennessee homesick blues running through my head
C
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