Tennessee
I have seen your rolling hills in speckled shade of green
rode your mares down dusty roads
& I have slept beside your streams
roaming round from town to town
I found a change came over me
as I grew to know your people tennessee
tennessee
you treat me like I was your only child
you always take me back with open arms
tennessee
you’ve given me the best things in my life
just to know you’re there
is all I need
till I come home
tennessee
I remember amber sunsets
smokey mountain haze
fishing bass from hickory lakes
on those lazy summer days
I remember being older once
but I was not as free
as I have been since I came to tennessee
tennessee
you treat me like I was your only child
you always take me back with open arms
tennessee
you’ve given me the best things in my life
just to know you’re there
is all I need
till I come home
tennessee
the work I do might keep me a thousand miles away
but who I am and where I’m from stays with me every day
tennessee
you treat me like I was your only child
you always take me back with open arms
tennessee
you’ve given me the best things in my life
just to know you’re there
is all I need
till I come home
tennessee
Tennessee
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About This Song:
In spring of 1973 I decided to leave Chicago and relocated to Nashville. It was quite a change to move from the bustle of a big city to the relative tranquility of the beautiful Tennessee countryside. I spent a lot of my free time exploring the country back roads, just wandering.
I loved living there, but few musicians made much money gigging around Nashville. There was plenty of studio work, but if you wanted to perform live for $, you had to hit the road. So it seems every couple of months I was on the road heading for gigs. I would while away those long highway hours singing to myself in the car, writing songs – and this is one that came as I was making my way back to home to Tennessee.
