G                        C          D7           G
Well I left home at a crack of dawn just about a year ago
G                           C          D7                    G
I thumbed my way cross the USA and I learned a lot I didn't know
G                         C                    D7                 G
The Promised Land that I thought I'd find was always just ahead of me
G                     C          D7                 G
Until one day when I realized I left it back in Tennessee


[Chorus]

G                                      D7                  
And that's why I'm going back to my Tennessee girl 
       C                G
And a Tennessee way of life
                      D7               
And I'm gonna ask my Tennessee girl 
    C               G
To be my Tennessee wife


[Verse 2]

G                      C            D7                 G
Tonight I slept in a hobo camp workin' out like dog by day
G                      C             D7                 G
I never got enough to get ahead just enough to make my way
G                       C              D7                 G
Cold and tired when the evening come all I had to ease my mind
G                             C                     D7               G
Was thinkin' bout the place I started from and the girl that I left behind


[Chorus]

G                                      D7                  
And that's why I'm going back to my Tennessee girl 
       C                G
And a Tennessee way of life
                      D7               
And I'm gonna ask my Tennessee girl 
    C               G
To be my Tennessee wife


[Verse 3]

G                             C          D7                     G
There ain't no place that I been at all that I was gonna settle in
G                       C                     D7            G
And every town that I travel through made me wanna go home again
G                              C             D7                   G
The green green grass and the rollin' hills seem to keep a callin' me
G                       C                   D7                 G
Back to the place where I was born and the girl that I long to see


[Chorus]

G                                      D7                  
And that's why I'm going back to my Tennessee girl 
       C                G
And a Tennessee way of life
                      D7               
And I'm gonna ask my Tennessee girl 
    C               G
To be my Tennessee wife