C
New York City ain't no kind of place
F
For a country girl with a friendly face
CG7FC
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
CG7FC
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
CG7FC
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
CG7FC
And Lord I'm so Tennessee homesick that I could die
FC
But I ain't been home in I don't know when
FC
If I had it all to do over again
G7FC
Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
FC
What I wouldn't give for a little bitty taste
FC
Of Mama's homemade chocolate cake
G7FC
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
CG7FC
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
CG7FC
And head off to Calhoun County and catch us a coon
FC
But I ain't been home in I don't know when
FC
If I had it all to do over again
G7FC
Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
FC
Eating grits and gravy and country ham
FC
Go to church on Sunday with dinner on the grounds
G7FC
Tennessee homesick blues are running through my head
FC
And I ain't been home in I don't know when
FC
If I had it all to do over again
G7F
Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
CFC
Good Lord have mercy on a country girl
E7F
Trying to make a living in a rhinestone world
AmG7F
It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world
CG7F
With Tennessee homesick blues running through my head
CG7F
I've got those Tennessee homesick blues running through my head
C
Tennessee homesick blues
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.