Tennessee Homesick Blues Chords & Lyrics - Dolly Parton

[C]New York City ain't no kind of place

For a [F]country girl with a friendly face

If you [C]smile people look at you [G7]funny they [F]take it [C]wrong


The greenest state in the land of the free

And the [F]home of the Grand Ole Opry

Is [C]calling me back to my [G7]Smoky [F]Mountain [C]home

I wish I had my old fishing pole

And was [F]sitting on the banks of the fishing hole

Eating [C]green apples and [G7]waiting for the [F]fish to [C]bite

Life ain't as simple as it used to be

Since [F]the big apple took a bite out of me

And [C]Lord I'm so Tennessee [G7]homesick [F]that I could [C]die

But I ain't been home in I [F]don't know [C]when

If I [F]had it all to do [C]over again

Tonight I'd sleep in [G7]my old [F]feather [C]bed

What I wouldn't give for a [F]little bitty [C]taste

Of [F]Mama's homemade [C]chocolate cake

Tennessee homesick [G7]blues running [F]through my [C]head

Mama you can fluff my feather bed

Just as [F]soon as I can I'm gonna head

Back [C]to the Tennessee [G7]hills and it [F]better be [C]soon

Daddy you can load the rifles up

We're gonna [F]load them dogs on the pickup truck

And [C]head off to Calhoun [G7]County and [F]catch us a [C]coon

But I ain't been home in I [F]don't know [C]when

If I [F]had it all to do [C]over again

Tonight I'd sleep in [G7]my old [F]feather [C]bed

Eating grits and gravy [F]and country [C]ham

Go to [F]church on Sunday with [C]dinner on the grounds

Tennessee homesick [G7]blues are running [F]through my [C]head

And I ain't been home in I [F]don't know [C]when

If I [F]had it all to do [C]over again

Tonight I'd sleep in [G7]my old [F]feather bed

Good [C]Lord have mercy on [F]a country [C]girl

[E7]Trying to make a living in a [F]rhinestone world

It's hard to be a diamond in a [Am]rhine[G7]stone [F]world

With [C]Tennessee homesick [G7]blues running through my [F]head

I've got those [C]Tennessee homesick [G7]blues running through my [F]head

Tennessee homesick [C]blues