Tennessee Plates chords by Joe Bonamassa and John Hiatt
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Verse 1
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I woke up in a hotel,
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didn't know what to do
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I turned the TV on, wrote a letter to you
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The news was talkin' 'bout a dead
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man upon the interstate
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Seems they lookin' for a Cadillac with
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Tennessee plates
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Verse 2
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Well 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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my trial I'll have to wait
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They're lookin' for a Cadillac
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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 shiverin' in the dark,
so I offered her a ride
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Three bank jobs later, four cars hotwired
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We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire,
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Yeah!
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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Yeah If they'd known what we was
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up to they wouldn't let us in
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Now we landed in Memphis
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like original sin
Elvis Presley Boulevard to
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the Graceland gates
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Oh, see we're lookin' for a Cadillac with
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Tennessee plates
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Verse 5
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Man, there must have been a dozen
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of them parked in that garage
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There wasn't one Lincoln and there
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wasn't one Dodge
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Wasn't one Japanese model or make
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Just pretty, pretty Cadillacs' with
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Tennessee plates
Verse 6
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She saw him singing once
when she was seventeen
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And ever since that day she's
been living in between
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I was never king of nothin'
but that wild weekend
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Anyway he wouldn't care, hell he gave them to his friends
Interlude 2
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Verse 7
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ain't no hotel I'm
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writin' you from
The Tennessee prison up at
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Brushy Mountain
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Where yours sincerely's
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doin' five to eight
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Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates
Outro 1
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Tennessee Plates
Joe Bonamassa and John Hiatt
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