[00:30.91]new york city ain't no kind of place
[00:33.34]for a country girl with a friendly face
[00:36.15]if you smile people look at you funny
[00:38.54]they take it wrong
[00:42.18]the greenest state in the land of the free
[00:44.86]and the home of the grand ole opry
[00:47.83]is calling me back to my smoky mountain home
[00:53.81]i wish i had my old fishin' pole
[00:56.59]and was sitting on the banks of the fishing hole
[00:59.47]eating green apples and waiting for the fish to bite
[01:05.28]life ain't as simple as it used to be
[01:07.90]since the big apple took a bite out of me
[01:10.98]and lord, i'm so tennessee homesick that i could die
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[01:16.93]but i ain't been home in i don't know when
[01:19.47]if i had it all to do over again
[01:22.63]tonight i'd sleep in my old feather bed
[01:28.43]what i wouldn't give for a little bitty taste
[01:31.55]of mama's homemade chocolate cake
[01:34.55]tennessee homesick blues running through my head
[01:53.51]mama you can fluff my feather bed
[01:56.16]just as soon as i can i'm gonna head
[01:59.07]back to the tennessee hills and it better be soon
[02:05.07]daddy you can load the rifles up
[02:07.67]we're gonna load them dogs on the pickup truck
[02:10.58]and take off to calhoun country and catch us a coon
[02:15.96]{chorus:}
[02:16.59]but i ain't been home in i don't know when
[02:19.21]if i had it all to do over again
[02:22.29]tonight i'd sleep in my old feather bed
[02:27.75]{repeat chorus}
[02:28.27]eatin' grits and gravy and country ham
[02:30.71]go to church on sunday with dinner on the grounds
[02:33.75]tennessee homesick blues are runnin' through my head
[02:39.15]{chorus:}
[02:39.63]but i ain't been home in i don't know when
[02:42.32]if i had it all to do over again
[02:45.48]tonight i'd sleep in my old feather bed
[02:50.57]{repeat chorus}
[02:51.81]good lord have mercy on a country girl
[02:54.11]tryin' to make a living in a rhinestone world
[02:56.79]it's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world
[03:00.78]with tennessee homesick blues runnin' through my head
[03:05.29]i've got those tennessee homesick blues runnin' through my head
[03:11.05]tennessee homesick blues