TENNESSEE WOMAN
(Jim Webb)


Tanya Tucker - 1980


  
Lay me down on a porch at midnight
Get me high on the Southern moonlight
Walk me down by the river star bright
Hold me my friend, I'm home again

'Cause I'm a Tennessee woman who's been away from home
I know I don't belong in that city world
Old Smoky Mountains, do you remember me
I'm from Tennessee, I'm just a local girl, yeah

(Instrumental Break)

Make my bed where the sun can wake me
From my dreams of childhood take me
Where the winds of time can't shake me
Help me unload this weight of the road

'Cause I'm a Tennessee woman who's been away from home
I know I don't belong in that city world
Old Smoky Mountains, do you remember me
I'm from Tennessee, I'm just a local girl

I'm a Tennessee woman who's been away from home
I know I can't belong in that city world
Old Smoky Mountains, do you remember me
I'm from Tennessee, I'm just a local girl

Well, I'm a Tennessee woman who's been away from home
I know I can't belong in that city world
Old Smoky Mountains .......... FADE



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2017)