verse 1 C C/B C/A C/B C C/B C/A C/B 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 yeahverse 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 yeahF 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 soulverse 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 soulF 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