Tennessee

Song Tennessee
Artist Silver Jews
Album Bright Flight

Lyrics

[00:00.55] I saw the river playing in the valley
[00:09.14] Rushin' 'round the bend and skippin' stones
[00:17.03] I saw the meadow wobble in the moonlight
[00:25.33] I've come to get my girl and take her home
[00:33.73] Her doorbell plays a bar of Stephen Foster
[00:41.99] Her sister never left and look what it cost her
[00:50.13] We're gonna live in Nashville and I'll make a career
[00:58.04] out of writing sad songs and gettin' paid by the tear
[01:06.14] Marry me and leave Kentucky, come to Tennessee
[01:19.02] Cause you're the only ten I see
[01:22.40] You're the only ten I see
[01:26.61] I've looked through offices and honky tonks for a man man enough to be
[01:41.22] Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
[01:44.74] Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
[01:48.91]
[01:57.77] Punk rock died when the first kid said
[02:05.61] "Punk's not dead, punk's not dead"
[02:14.81] You know Louisville is death
[02:18.92] We've got to up and move
[02:23.59] because the dead do not improve
[02:32.59] Goodbye users & suckers & steady badluckers
[02:41.76] We're off to the land of club soda unbridled
[02:50.75] We're off to the land of hot middle-aged women
[02:59.06] Off to the land whose blood runneth orange
[03:07.85] Marry me and leave Kentucky, come to Tennessee
[03:20.85] Cause you're the only ten I see
[03:24.26] You're the only ten I see
[03:30.77] I've looked through offices and honky tonks for a man man enough to be
[03:42.64] Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
[03:46.73] Mr. and Mrs. Tennessee
[03:50.50]