Tennessee 1949 chords
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Tune Society"
I would like to submit "Tennessee 1949".
I've exhausted web searches, but cannot find the writer. (Feel free to add it, if you know it.)
I transcribed it from the CD:
"The Dentville/Kingston Sessions" by THE DENTVILLE FIDDLE TUNE SOCIETY"
Track #4
TENNESSEE 1949
by "The Dentville Fiddle Tune Society"
Transcribed and Submitted by: Phil Lea
www.PHILLEA.com
Email: phil@phillea.com
[A]
[A] I wonder if it's [D] rainin' in the [A] mountains
I wonder how the [D] old town looks to-[A]-day
and [D] is the church still there beside the [A] river
could [B7] I go back and find my [E] Model-A
Does [A] life still go to [D] sleep just after [A] sunset
and are the berries still as [A7] thick on the [D] vine?
and do old men sit and talk about the [A] old days
the way they did in [E] nineteen-forty-[A]-nine
Chorus
[A] and oh oh oh, [D] how I'd like to be
[A] back in the hills of [E] Tennessee
[A] and oh oh oh [D] it would be so fine
[A] If I could just go [E] back to nineteen-[A]-forty-nine
(+ turn around)
[A] I wonder, if by [D] chance, if they'd [A] remember
the footloose boy, so [D] wild and fancy [A] free
who [D] always loved guitars and country [A] music
could [B7] I go back, would they remember [E] me
[A] I wonder what be-[D]-came of Catherine [A] Akers
The girl that broke my [A7] heart at seven-[D]-teen
I barely can remember what she [A] looks like
but, 30 years a-[E]-go she was my [A] dream
(Chorus + turnaround)
[A] For 30 years, I [D] searched the wild world [A] over
for what I don't re-[D]-call and didn't [A] find
but [D] now I searchin' pictures in my mem-[A]-ry
of Tennessee and [E] nineteen-forty-[A]-nine
(Chorus)
[A] If I could just go [E] back to nineteen-[A]-forty-nine