New york city ain't no kind of place
For a country girl with a friendly face
If you smile people look at you funny
They take you wrong
The greenest state in the land of the free
And the home of the grand old robbery
Keeps calling me back
To my smoky mountain home
I wish I had my old fishing pole
And was sitting on the banks of the fishing hole
Eating green apples and waiting for the fish to bite
Life ain't as simple as it used to be
Since the big apple took a bite out of me
And learned how to
Tennessee homesick
The batter could die
But I ain't been home and I don't know when
If I had it all to do
Over again tonight I'd sleep
In my old feather bed
What I wouldn't give for a little bitty taste
Of mama's homemade chocolate cake
Tennessee homesick
Blues are running through my head
You're the only one
You're the only one
You're the only one you're
The only one
Mama you can pluck my favorite band
Just as soon as I can
I'm gonna head back to the tennessee hills
And it better be soon
Daddy you can load the rifles up
We're gonna load them dogs on the pickup truck
And head up to cowhune county and catch a racoon
But I ain't been home and I don't know when
If I had it all to do over again tonight I'd sleep
In my old feather bed
Eat grits and gravy and country ham
Go to church on sunday
With dinner on the ground
Tennessee homesick blues
Are running through my head
And I ain't been home
And I don't know when
If I had it all to do
Over again tonight I'd sleep in my old feather bed
But might have mercy on a country girl
Trying to make a living
In a rhinestone world
It's hard to be a diamond
In a rhinestone world
Tennessee homesick blues
Are running through my head
Well I've got those tennessee homesick blues
Running through my head
Tennessee homesick blues