Book of Song

Tennessee

by Gillian Welch

Intro:
[Am] [D6/9/A] [B11/A] [D6/9/A] x2

I [Am] kissed you cause I've [D6/9/A] never been an [B11/A] angel [D6/9/A]
I [Am] learned to say [D6/9/A] hosannas on my [B11/A] knees [D6/9/A]
But they [Am] threw me out of Sunday school when [D7/F#] I was nine
And the [Am] sisters said I [E] did just as I [Am] pleased

Even so I try to be a good girl
It's only what I want that makes me weak
I had no desire to be a child of sin
Then you went and pressed your whiskers to my cheek

( Chorus
[A] Fa la la la
[G] Fa la la lee
Now [F] let me go, my honey oh
[C] Back to Tenne- [G] ssee
It's [C] beef steak when I'm working
[G] Whiskey when I'm dry
[F] Sweet heaven [G] when I [A] die )

Now I've tried drinking rye and gamblin'
Dancing with damnation is a ball
But of all the little ways I've found to hurt myself
Well you might be my favorite one of all

Why can't I go and live the life rightly?
Why can't I go back home to apple pie?
Cause your affront to my virtue was a touch too much
But you left a little twinkle in my eye

Chorus


Now some will come confessing of transgressions
Some will come confessing of their love
You were there strumming on your gay guitar
You were trying to tell me something with your thumb

( Chorus
[A] Fa la la la
[G] Fa la la lee
Now [F] let me go, my honey oh
[C] Back to Tenne- [G] ssee
It's [C] beef steak when I'm working
[G] Whiskey when I'm dry
[F] Sweet heaven [G] when I [A] die
It's [C] beef steak when I'm working
[G] Whiskey when I'm dry
[F] Sweet heaven [G] when I [A] die )