G C D7 G Well I left home at a crack of dawn just about a year ago G C D7 G I thumbed my way cross the USA and I learned a lot I didn't know G C D7 G The Promised Land that I thought I'd find was always just ahead of me G C D7 G Until one day when I realized I left it back in Tennessee [Chorus] G D7 And that's why I'm going back to my Tennessee girl C G And a Tennessee way of life D7 And I'm gonna ask my Tennessee girl C G To be my Tennessee wife [Verse 2] G C D7 G Tonight I slept in a hobo camp workin' out like dog by day G C D7 G I never got enough to get ahead just enough to make my way G C D7 G Cold and tired when the evening come all I had to ease my mind G C D7 G Was thinkin' bout the place I started from and the girl that I left behind [Chorus] G D7 And that's why I'm going back to my Tennessee girl C G And a Tennessee way of life D7 And I'm gonna ask my Tennessee girl C G To be my Tennessee wife [Verse 3] G C D7 G There ain't no place that I been at all that I was gonna settle in G C D7 G And every town that I travel through made me wanna go home again G C D7 G The green green grass and the rollin' hills seem to keep a callin' me G C D7 G Back to the place where I was born and the girl that I long to see [Chorus] G D7 And that's why I'm going back to my Tennessee girl C G And a Tennessee way of life D7 And I'm gonna ask my Tennessee girl C G To be my Tennessee wife