Tennessee 1949

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I wonder if it's  rainin' in the mountains
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I wonder how the  old town looks to--day
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And if the church is there beside the river
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Could I go back and find where mama lay

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Does life still go to sleep just after sunset
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Are the berries still as big on the vine
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Do old men sit and talk about the old days
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The way they did in nineteen forty-nine

Chorus
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Oh Oh, Oh how I'd like to be
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Back in the hills of Tennessee
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Oh Oh, Oh it would be so fine
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If I could just go  back to nineteen forty-nine


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I wonder if by chance they might remember
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A teenage boy so wild and fancy free
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Who always loved guitars and country music
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If I went back would they remember me

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I wonder what became of Kathryn Ackers
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The girl who broke my heart at seventeen
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I barely can remember what she looks like
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Thirty years ago she was my dream

Chorus
     A7      D
Oh Oh, Oh how I'd like to be
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Back in the hills of Tennessee
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Oh Oh, Oh it would be so fine
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If I could just go  back to nineteen forty-nine


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For many years I've searched the wide world over
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For what I don't recall and didn't find
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And now I'm searching pictures in my memory
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For Tennessee in nineteen forty nine

Chorus
     A7      D
Oh Oh, Oh how I'd like to be
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Back in the hills of Tennessee
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Oh Oh, Oh it would be so fine
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If I could just go  back to nineteen forty-nine