Tennessee Homesick Blues

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New York City ain't no kind of place 
  
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For a country girl with a friendly face  

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If you smile people look at you funny they take it wrong  


The greenest state in the land of the free 
  
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And the home of the Grand Ole Opry  

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Is calling me back to my Smoky Mountain home  



I wish I had my old fishing pole 
  
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And was sitting on the banks of the fishing hole 
  
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Eating green apples and waiting for the fish to bite 
  

Life ain't as simple as it used to be 
  
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Since the big apple took a bite out of me 
  
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And Lord I'm so Tennessee homesick that I could die  


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But I ain't been home in I don't know when 
  
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If I had it all to do over again  

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Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed  

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What I wouldn't give for a little bitty taste  

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Of Mama's homemade chocolate cake  

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Tennessee homesick blues running through my head  



Mama you can fluff my feather bed  

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Just as soon as I can I'm gonna head  

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Back to the Tennessee hills and it better be soon 
  

Daddy you can load the rifles up 
  
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We're gonna load them dogs on the pickup truck 
  
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And head off to Calhoun County and catch us a coon  


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But I ain't been home in I don't know when 
  
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If I had it all to do over again  

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Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed  

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Eating grits and gravy and country ham  

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Go to church on Sunday with dinner on the grounds  

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Tennessee homesick blues are running through my head  


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And I ain't been home in I don't know when 
  
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If I had it all to do over again  

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Tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed 
  
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Good Lord have mercy on a country girl 
  
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Trying to make a living in a rhinestone world  

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It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world  

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With Tennessee homesick blues running through my head 

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I've got those Tennessee homesick blues running through my head 

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Tennessee homesick blues