I Wasn't Born In Tennessee chords by Chip Taylor

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Verse 1
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I got my four -pedal steel player
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Jim,
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got his fiddle makin' like
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it was his own world.
Got them city hillbillies
and the green -eyed fillies
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lookin' up at me like I was Merle.
And if we can't fool them all the time,
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it's alright with me.
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Cause it's still my song,
ain't nothin' wrong,
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and I wasn't born in Tennessee.
I was seven in ten years
and hiding my fears
behind the sound of a steel guitar
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Though the city was rockin' me
was country and sockin' it too
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At a Mount Vernon bar,
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them city folks
We was doin' our strokes
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and if that don't qualify me
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I'll be back again, you'll remember then
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that I wasn't born in Tennessee
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee
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We don't take our trips on LSD
We don't burn our draft parts
down on Main Street
We like livin' right and bein' free
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I heard old Hack singin'
about doin' his thing
And I was proud of the
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things that he done

Verse 2

How them San Fran hippies

and the melee yippies

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Verse 3

Ain't changing that okie none

Verse 4

But with every show I see

his sideburns grow

Verse 5

And there's hair where

his face used to be

Verse 6

And in a year or so you may never know

Verse 7
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That I wasn't born in Tennessee
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Biggie John.
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I'll keep pushing my ballpoint
and doing a joint
trying to get these words to rhyme
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And it'll be my pride
if I can hide my side
of the Mason -Dixon line
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But if that don't play your party,
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honey, it's all right with me
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Cause I've got my dream
waiting just upstream
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and I wasn't born in Tennessee
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Here we go.
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I wasn't born in Tennessee
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Oh, lead a love, oh, lead a lay
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Oh, lead a love, oh, lead a
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Oh, lead a love, oh, lead a lay
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Oh, lead a love