Girl Named Tennessee Chords

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Girl Named Tennessee by Needtobreathe is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords C, G, Bb, F and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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F
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16
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  			Intro: C  G  C 

                        Bb    C 
They say this last forever 
                            C   G 
That's just what I'm afraid of 
                             C 
I'll never dance like this again 

                                Bb  C 
She smiles like the Georgia summer 
                                  C  G 
She laughs like the sound of thunder 
                            C 
I  wanna dance like this again 

Intro: C  G  C 

                          Bb   C 
I'm not the marrying kind 
                           C   G 
I've said a thousand times 
                                     C 
I've never danced like this before 
                               Bb  C 
She's got the prettiest shoes 
                               C  G 
And I love the way she moves 
                              C 
I wanna dance like this aga
 

     F         G        C 
I was free and far from home 
     F        G      C 
I was young and on my own 
    F                 G 
I was blind as I could be 
        C                A 
Thinking love was not for me 
        F           G                    C 
Till the night I met that girl named Tennessee 


Intro: C  G  C 

C 
Lights came down and the room spun slow 
G                  C 
Started saying she had to go 
C 
Don't go baby, I didn't get your name 
G          F                     C 
She said, "Don't worry. I did not say." 

       C 
Oh, she danced away with my heart and soul 
G                       C 
Who she was I will never know 
C 
Danced away with my hopes and dreams 
G        F              C 
My sweet girl from Tenessee 


    F         G        C 
I was free and far from home 
    F          G     C 
I was young and on my own 
      F              G 
I was blind as I could be 
        C                A 
Thinking love was not for me 
        F               G                 C 
Till the night I met that girl named Tennessee
 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante