Tennessee

Recorded version is in A major 

Intro 

C    F    C 
Am   Em   Dm7  G 


[Verso 1]
 
    C                    F                  C       Cadd4  C 
The tobacco field tilted toward the edge of summer, 
             Am            Em            G    G7 
Greener than anything that it could ever keep. 
     Am                 F              C      Cadd4  C 
The creek rehearsed the same old conversation 
                 F        G              C      Csus4  C 
With stones best meant to listen, not to speak. 
 


[Verso 2]
 
    C                    F                 C      Cadd4  C 
The blackberries slowly darkened in the sunshine, 
      Am           Em                  G    G7 
Using all of June just to learn their name. 
     Am                F                C      Cadd4  C 
We found them where the pasture met the forest, 
  F             G                  C      Cadd4  C 
Taking what the bluebirds couldn't claim. 
 


[Refrão]
 
      F         G7                C      Cadd4  C 
Where Tennessee narrows toward Virginia, 
    F                     G7             C      Cadd4  C 
The brick house holds the stories we all knew. 
   Am              F                   C      Cadd4  C 
It carries all our summers through the hollers, 
Dm7             G7               C 
Always leaving room for someone new. 
 


[Verso 3]
 
       C                    F                C      Cadd4  C 
Love's voices crossed these hills before the daylight. 
  Am             Em                  G      G7 
I hear them as I whisper through the trails. 
   Am             F                  C      Cadd4  C 
My brother and my sisters left their footprints, 
           F            G                      C      Cadd4  C 
Grown over now but this farm still tells their tales. 
 


[Verso 4]
 
  C                 F             C      Cadd4  C 
I still see mom and dad along the hillsides, 
             Am      Em            G    G7 
Though their days in Tennessee are gone. 
     Am            F               C      Cadd4  C 
And still I see my daughter walk beside them. 
            F          G             C      Cadd4  C 
So they can pass their dusk onto her dawn. 
 


[Refrão]
 
      F         G              C        Cadd4  C 
Where Tennessee narrows toward Virginia, 
    F                     G              C      Cadd4  C 
The brick house holds the stories we all knew. 
   Am              F                   C      Cadd4  C 
It carries all our summers through the hollers, 
Dm7             G7                C 
Always leaving room for someone new. 
 


[Verso 5]
 
    C                F                C 
The hills keep watch above the rolling pastures, 
              Am        Em                  G 
While seasons pass like shadows through the trees. 
     Am            F               C 
We leave our names behind us as we wander, 
             F            G              C 
Someone will find them in another summer breeze. 
 


[Refrão]
 
      F         G              C      Cadd4  C 
Where Tennessee narrows toward Virginia, 
    F                     G              C      Cadd4  C 
The brick house holds the stories we all knew. 
   Am              F                   C      Cadd4  C 
It carries all our summers through the hollers, 
Dm7             G7                C 
Always leaving room for someone new.