Tennessee Chords
by Silver Jews
Tennessee by Silver Jews is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Am, Em, G, F and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C Am Em
I saw the river playing in the valley
C Am Em
Rushing 'round a bend and skipping stones
C Am Em
I saw the meadow wobble in the moonlight
C Am Em
I've come to get my girl and take her home
G F C
Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster
G F C
Her sister never left and look what it cost her
G F C
We're gonna live in Nashville and I'll make a career
G F C
Out of writing sad songs and getting paid by the tear
G Am
Marry me and leave Kentucky
C G D
Come to Tennessee
G C D
'Cause you're the only ten I see
G C D
You're the only ten I see
G Am C D
I've looked through offices and honky-tonks for men man enough to be
G C D
Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
G C D
Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
C Am Em
Punk rock died when the first kid said
C Am Em
"Punk's not dead, punk's not dead"
C Am Em
You know Louisville is death, we've got to up and move
C Am Em
Because the dead do not improve
G F C
Goodbye you suckers and steady bad luckers
G F C
We're off to the land of club soda unbridled
G F C
We're off to the land of hot middle-aged women
G F C
Off to the land whose blood runneth orange
G Am
Marry me and leave Kentucky
C G D
Come to Tennessee
G C D
'Cause you're the only ten I see
G C D
You're the only ten I see
G Am C D
I've looked through offices and honky-tonks for men man enough to be
G C D
Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
G C D
Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee