Tennessee Homesick Blues Lyrics - The Essential Dolly Parton, Vol. 1 - Dolly Parton

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 it wrong 

The greenest state in the land of the free 

And the home of the grand ole opry 

Is calling me back to my smoky mountain home 

I wish I had my old fishin' 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 lord, I'm so tennessee homesick that I could die 

Chorus: 

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But I ain't been home in 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 running through my head 

Mama you can fluff my feather bed 

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 take off to calhoun country and catch us a coon 

Repeat chorus 

Eatin' grits and gravy and country ham 

Go to church on sunday with dinner on the grounds 

Tennessee homesick blues are runnin' through my head 

Repeat chorus 

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Good lord have mercy on a country girl 

Tryin' to make a living in a rhinestone world 

It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world 

With tennessee homesick blues runnin' through my head 

I've got those tennessee homesick blues runnin' through my head 

Tennessee homesick blues