Tennessee Waltz
Tennessee Waltz

Tennessee Waltz easy guitar chords by Tennessee Ernie Ford

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  • Verse 1
    was 
    waltzing 
    with 
    my darlin' 

    To 
    the 

    Tennessee 
    waltz 

    When 
    an old 
    friend I 
    happened 
    to 
    see 

    introduced 
    him 
    to 
    my loved one 

    And 
    while 
    they 
    were waltzing, 

    my 
    friend 
    stole 
    my sweetheart 
    from 
    me. 

    remember the 
    night 
    and 
    the 

    Tennessee 
    woods. 

    I know 
    just 
    how much 
    have loved. 

    lost 
    my 
    little 
    darlin' 
    the night 

    they 
    were 
    playin' 

    The 
    beautiful 

    Ten
    nessee 

    Waltz 

    remember 
    the 
    night 
    and 
    the 

    Tennessee 

    Waltz 

    know 
    just 
    how 
    much I 
    have lost. 

    lost my 
    little 
    darling 
    the 
    night 

    they 
    were 
    playing 

    in the 
    beautiful 

    Ten
    nessee 
    walkway. 

    Thank 
    you. 

    Thank you 
    very much. 

    As we said 
    a while ago, this is the 
    fourth time in 

    five years 
    that I have been here. 

    I feel 
    that I 
    must say something 

    of which I deeply 
    believe. 

    One of the nicest 
    things that has happened to me 

    in meeting the thousands 
    and thousands 

    of 
    people that I 
    have from your state 
    is 
    that I 
    have be

    come very 
    closely associated 
    with 

    one of the finest 
    groups of 
    men I've ever known, 

    and that's your 

    Indiana 

    State 

    Police, 
    who have been so great 

    to us. 

    Give them a hand! 

    have never 
    known a finer 
    group of 
    gentlemen an

    have been so much 
    help to us. 

    I know we've 
    been a lot of 
    bother to them, but 
    they've 

    grinned and 
    barred, and 
    they've 

    just been great 
    to 
    us. 

    This 
    one trooper 
    has 
    been with us 
    every 

    trip that we've 
    been 
    here. 

    Actually 
    his folks come from 

    back in my part of 
    the country. 

    I just 
    happen to think of this. 

    I don't 
    know if he knows I know it, 

    but if he knows I know it, he 
    hopes I've forgotten 

    it. 

    I'll bet that. 

    I'll 
    never forget years 
    ago when we were young bucks, 

    and that was years 
    ago. 

    Back there 
    a beautiful showgirl 
    from 

    California 
    came back to our 
    part 

    of the country for 

    vacation. 

    She wanted to be there 
    in the hills where 

    it was quiet and 
    walk through the fields 

    and the 
    woods and the meadows 

    and the 
    mud. 

    So she 
    came 
    back to our 
    part of the 

    country 

    and got a room in 
    one of those big old 

    farm
    houses. 

    She was having a 
    wonderful time, an

    one 
    hot 

    Saturday 
    afternoon—ooh, 

    it was hot 
    !—she 
    took 
    a walk down 
    through that patch 
    of woods 

    that goes 
    down the back of our 

    place there. 

    And you 
    don't walk too far through 

    that 

    patch of woods 

    till you come to the river." 

    She got there 
    on the riverbank, 

    and oh, boy, 

    did that look cool. 

    And 
    she 
    sure was hot, 
    boys. 

    And she 
    was in the woods, 
    she 
    was 

    by herself, 
    and 
    it is 
    hot." 


    She was in the woods 
    and by herself, 

    and 
    she sure didn't 
    want to go swimming. 

    So she 
    went into swimming, 

    because it was 
    in the 
    woods and she was 
    by herself. 

    She put her 
    clothes there on a rock 

    and stacked 
    them up there. 

    She 
    went into the river and, 

    oh, did that feel 
    good, 
    oh, boy! 

    don't 
    suppose 
    that 
    young 

    Walker 
    boy had been down 

    through that patch of woods 
    in six 

    months for 
    no reason 
    at all. 

    Here he comes, 

    bigfooting down through 
    there that day. 

    He got down 
    on the bank of the river 
    and 

    saw a lady's 
    clothes 
    ly
    ing there on a 
    rock. 

    He looked out into 
    the 
    water
    , and fortunately 

    our heroine 
    is in deep enough 
    water

    Of 
    course, 
    his eyes 
    bugged out 

    like a stomped -on 
    toad 
    frog. 

    He sat 
    right down on the 
    rock. 

    She 
    saw him. 

    She was out in the water. 

    She 
    said, 

    Well, 
    he'll get 
    up and 
    go away in a 
    few minutes, 

    and I'll get out 
    and get 
    dressed 

    and 
    go back to the house. 

    Not 
    that boy! 

    Finally, 
    it had gotten later, 

    and she was 
    get
    ting a little cold, 
    and 
    she said, 

    Young 

    man, 
    would you mind getting up 
    and going 
    away? I have to 

    come out and get dressed and 
    go 

    to the house." 

    He 
    just sat there and 
    looked at her. 

    She 
    would beg him, and he would 
    sit, 

    and 
    she would move around in the 

    river to try to keep warm. 

    It was getting late. 

    Her 
    foot hit 
    something in the bottom 
    of the 
    river that 

    just didn't feel like 
    the bottom 

    of the river. 

    It was something different. 

    She went 
    down under the 

    water and got a hold 

    of 
    it. 

    She felt 
    of it and knew it 

    was a big old country dishpan. 

    Somebody had 
    thrown it 

    away that didn't want 
    it. 

    It great big thing. 

    So 
    she got it up in 
    front of her and covered 
    herself up pretty good, 

    and she comes 
    storming 

    out 
    of that water up to him 
    and said, 

    Young man, 
    do you know what I think? 

    He 
    said, 

    Yes, ma 'am. 

    I bet you think there's a 

    bottom in that dishpan. 

    Well, these 
    home folks 

    have fun, don't 
    they? 

    When 
    I was 
    here in 1955, 
    the first trip I 
    made here, 

    we 
    did a song, 
    the first time I 

    had 
    ever done it publicly, 

    even 
    before I ever 
    recorded it. 

    So 
    having done it here, 
    I must give you 
    folk credit for the 
    whole mess, 

    which 
    I'm 
    certainly 

    glad. 

    And here we're back 
    for our fourth time 
    at 
    the same 

    place 
    where this 
    song 
    first got 

    Let's start, 

    and we hope 
    you haven't forgotten 
    it yet. 

    Did 
    you get it, honey? 

    All right. 

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