Tennessee Plates chords by 
Charlie Sexton 
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Key: E major•
Verse 1
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I
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woke
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up in a hotel and I didn't know what to do
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I turned the TV on and wrote a let ter to you
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The news was talkin' 'bout a
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dragnet up on the inter state
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Said they were lookin' for a Cadillac with
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Ten nessee plates
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Verse 2
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Since I left California, baby,
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things have gotten worse
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Seems the land of opportunity
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for me is just a curse
Tell that judge in Bakersfield
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that my trial will have to wait
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Down here they're lookin' for
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a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
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It was somewhere in Nevada,
Verse 3
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it was cold outside
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She was shiv erin' in the dark,
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so I offered her a ride
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Three bank jobs later,
four cars hot wired
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We crossed the Mississippi like
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an oil slick fire
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Bm
Verse 4
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If they'd known what we was up
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to they wouldn't let us in
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When we landed in Memphis
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like ori ginal sin
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Up Elvis Presley Boulevard
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to the Graceland gates
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See we were lookin' for a Cadillac with
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Tenness ee plates
Interlude 1
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Well,
Verse 5
there must have been a dozen of
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them parked in that gar age
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And there wasn't one Lincoln and
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there wasn't one Dodge
And there wasn't one
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Japanese model or make
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Just pretty, pretty Cadillacs
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with Tennessee plates
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She saw him singing once when
Verse 6
she was 17
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And ever since that day
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she's been living in between
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I was never king of nothin'
but this wild weekend
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Any way he wouldn't care, hell,
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he gave them to his friends
Interlude 2
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Well, this ain't no hotel
Verse 7
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I'm writin'
you from (writin' you from)
It's the Tennessee prison up at Brushy
Mountain (Brushy Mountain)
Where yours sincerely's
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doin' five to eight
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Yeah, stampin' out my time makin'
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Tennessee plates
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Verse 8
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Yeah, stampin' out my time
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And makin' Tenness ee plates
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Yeah, yeah- yeah
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Tennessee plates
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We're makin' Tennessee plates,
yeah
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ChordsE A B Bm
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Capo: 2
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