Larry Sparks - Tennessee 1949 lyrics

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Capo 2nd Fret

Note: I put / marks just to give a basic idea of strum timing. Each / means

a down-stroke. This will help if you are playing along with the recording.

Intro: (A)//// (D)//// (A)//// //// //// (E)//// (A)//// //// //// ////

(A) I wonder if it's (D) rainin' in the (A) mountains

I wonder how the (D) old town looks to-(A)-day

And (D) if the church is there beside the (A) river

Could (B7) I go back and find where mama (E) lay

Does (A) life still go to (D) sleep just after (A) sunset

Are the berries still as (A7) big on the (D) vine

Do old men sit and talk about the (A) old days

The way they did in (E) nineteen forty-(A)-nine

Chorus

Oh (A7) Oh, Oh (D) how I'd like to be

(A) Back in the hills of (E) Tennessee (E7)

(A) Oh (A7) Oh, Oh (D) it would be so fine

If (A) I could just go (E) back to nineteen (A) forty-nine

Instrumental: same as Intro

(A) I wonder if by (D) chance they might re-(A)-member

A teenage boy so (D) wild and fancy (A) free

Who (D) always loved guitars and country (A) music

If (B7) I went back would they remember (E) me

I (A) wonder what be-(D)-came of Kathryn (A) Ackers

The girl who broke my (A7) heart at seven-(D)-teen

I barely can remember what she (A) looks like

Thirty years a-(E)-go she was my (A) dream

Repeat Chorus

Instrumental: same as Intro

For many years I've (D) searched the wide world (A) over

For what I don't re-(D)-call and didn't (A) find

And (D) now I'm searching pictures in my (A) memory

For Tennessee in (E) nineteen forty-(A)-nine

Repeat Chorus

Instrumental ending: (A)//// (E)//// (A)//// /