Roy Orbison

Tennessee Owns My Soul(Chords)

Roy Orbison

Key: C

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verse 1 
C          C/B         C/A        C/B     C          C/B         C/A        C/B 
Talk about troubles, I tell you I got 'em shovellin' sand on the Mississipi bottom 
C   C/B   C/A  C/B   C   C/B  C/A   C/B 
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah 
C            C/B      C/A     C/B         C     C/B           C/A        C/B 
I killed me a man in Shelby County, they turned me in for the government bounty 
C   C/B   C/A  C/B  C    C/B  C/A   C/B 
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah 
 
F G Am F C Tennessee owns my soul, that little Georgia gal just wouldn't listen F C F C She tried to run away with Stoney Lee I caught him and I put him six feet under F E F G Am I wonder if he misses me? Tennessee owns my soul
verse 2 C C/B C/A C/B C C/B C/A C/B Rottin' in a cell I try to forget her, wishin' like hell I'd never ever met her C C/B C/A C/B C C/B C/A C/B Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah C C/B C/A C/B C C/B C/A C/B Gotta get away, gotta see my baby, gotta leave tonight, she's drivin' me crazy C C/B C/A C/B C C/B C/A C/B Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
F G Am F C Tennessee owns my soul, that little Georgia gal just wouldn't listen F C F C She tried to run away with Stoney Lee I caught him and I put him six feet under F E F G Am I wonder if he misses me? Tennessee owns my soul
verse 3 C C/B C/A C/B C C/B C/A C/B I make it to the top of the twenty foot wall, the guard - I'm hit, and I think I'm gonna fall C C/B C/A C/B C C/B C/A C/B Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah C C/B C/A C/B C C/B C/A C/B Laying on a broken back and cryin', everything's goin' black and I'm dyin' C C/B C/A C/B F G Am F G A Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah Tennessee owns my soul, Tennessee owns my soul

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