Tennessee Owns My Soul

	  		
verse 1 
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Talk about troubles, I tell you I got 'em shovellin' sand on the Mississipi bottom 
C   C/B   C/A  C/B   C   C/B  C/A   C/B 
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah 
C            C/B      C/A     C/B         C     C/B           C/A        C/B 
I killed me a man in Shelby County, they turned me in for the government bounty 
C   C/B   C/A  C/B  C    C/B  C/A   C/B 
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah 
 
F          G      Am         F                                C 
Tennessee owns my soul, that little Georgia gal just wouldn't listen 
    F                             C     F                                 C 
She tried to run away with Stoney Lee I caught him and I put him six feet under 
  F                   E   F         G        Am 
I wonder if he misses me? Tennessee owns my soul 


verse 2 
C          C/B    C/A       C/B        C            C/B      C/A        C/B 
Rottin' in a cell I try to forget her, wishin' like hell I'd never ever met her 
C   C/B   C/A  C/B  C    C/B  C/A   C/B 
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah 
C          C/B        C/A    C/B   C          C/B            C/A        C/B 
Gotta get away, gotta see my baby, gotta leave tonight, she's drivin' me crazy 
C   C/B   C/A  C/B  C    C/B  C/A   C/B 
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah 

F          G      Am         F                                C 
Tennessee owns my soul, that little Georgia gal just wouldn't listen 
    F                             C     F                                 C 
She tried to run away with Stoney Lee I caught him and I put him six feet under 
  F                   E   F         G        Am 
I wonder if he misses me? Tennessee owns my soul 


verse 3 
C                C/B         C/A        C/B        C          C/B         C/A           C/B 
I make it to the top of the twenty foot wall, the guard - I'm hit, and I think I'm gonna fall 
C   C/B   C/A  C/B  C    C/B  C/A   C/B 
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah 

C            C/B   C/A      C/B      C            C/B    C/A        C/B 
Laying on a broken back and cryin', everything's goin' black and I'm dyin' 
C    C/B  C/A   C/B            F         G       Am    F         G       A 
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah Tennessee owns my soul, Tennessee owns my soul