Geology

[Verso 1]
 
G 
Way back in the distant past, 
C                    G 
500 million years or greater. 
G 
Tennessee was a tectonic plate, 
C                D 
Under the ocean, near the equator. 
      G                                  Cadd9 
And a few million years the plates began, 
  C                 G 
A steady northern migration. 
C                       G 
Volcanoes blew, and the earth arose, 
   D 
To form the Appalachians. 
 


[Verso 2]
 
G 
The range of mountains began to form, 
C                      G 
400 million years ago. 
    G 
And sandstone formation came along, 
       C                  D 
on the Cumberland Plateau. 
G 
The Paleozoic and the Mesozoic, 
G         C                 G 
built the hills just like a mesa. 
       C        G 
In the Cenozoic era, 
D                      G 
appeared the Nashville basin. 
 


[Verso 3]
 
A                      A7 
Beneath the limestone, sandstone, and shale, 
    D5          {E}         A 
The Earth moved as it must. 
A 
And form the Blue Ridge Mountains, 
   B7             E 
By sub-horizontal thrust. 
A 
Here on plutonic igneous rocks 
     D5                     A 
On a Precambrian promontory. 
D5              A 
That is where I first met you, 
        E                    A 
Which is a whole other story. 
 


[Verso 4]
 
A 
Geology, geology. 
       D           A 
Thats how God made Tennessee. 
A                                B7 
And Tennessee is where I found a girl, 
          E 
Whose feet are on the ground. 
D5                      A 
Whose substrata make the lava flow, 
E7                  A 
And that is all you need to know.