Tennessee Girl chords by Charley Pride

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Verse 1
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 (D major) Well I left home at a crack  (G major) of
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dawn  (A major) just about a year ago  (D major) 
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I thumbed my way cross the USA  (G major) and I
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 (A major) learned a lot I didn't know  (D major) 
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The Promised Land that I  (G major) thought I'd
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find was  (A major) always just ahead of me  (D major) 
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Until one day when I  (G major) realized
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I  (A major) left it back in Tennessee

Verse 2
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 (D major) And that's why I'm going back to my
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 (A major) Tennessee girl and a  (G major) Tennessee way of life  (D major) 
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And I'm gonna ask my Tennessee  (A major) 
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girl to  (G major) be my Tennessee  (D major) wife
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Tonight I slept in a  (G major) hobo camp
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 (A major) workin' out like dog by day  (D major) 
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 (A major) I  (D major) never got enough to  (G major) get ahead
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 (A major) just enough to make my way  (D major) 

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Verse 3
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 (D major) Cold and tired when the  (G major) evening
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come  (A major) all I had to ease my mind  (D major) 
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Was thinkin' bout the place I started  (G major) 
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from and the  (A major) girl that I left behind  (D major) 
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And that's  (A major) why  (D major) I'm going
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back...  (A major)  (G major)  (D major)  (A major)  (G major)  (D major)  (B major) 
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There  (E major) ain't no place that I  (A major) been at all
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that  (B major) I  would gonna settle in (E major) 

Verse 4
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And  (E major) every town that I  (A major) travel through
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made me  (B major) want to go home again  (E major) 
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The green green grass and the  (A major) rollin'
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hills seem  (B major) to keep a callin' me  (E major) 
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Back to the place where  (A major) I  was born
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and the  (B major) girl that I long to see  (E major) 
And that's why I'm going
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back...  (B major)  (A major)  (E major)  (B major)  (A major)  (E major) 