♪
I got a cool head,
I'm doing all right ♪
♪ Been up here so long,
I was starving for some hot spells ♪
♪ Summer lights shining on your back roads,
Tennessee ♪
♪ Somebody hit me hard,
right in my own backyard ♪
♪ Somebody put a hold lock on my heart ♪
♪ Running down your back roads, Tennessee ♪
♪ Oh,
you got the banjo and they play real slow ♪
♪ Not to me,
not to me,
I never heard such rock and roll ♪
♪ It's on your back roads, Tennessee ♪
♪ Well, I know you're not to blame ♪
♪ But you know that you should have told me ♪
♪ That I would never be the same ♪
♪ To driving down your back roads, Tennessee ♪
♪ Somebody held me tight,
somebody tried to fight ♪
♪ And somebody raced out in the night ♪
♪ Running down your back roads, Tennessee ♪
♪ Oh,
you kissed the soul of a rebel and a Yankee girl ♪
♪ And you got to me,
I heard you calling around the world ♪
♪ Where I saw somebody standing in a field with a crutch ♪
♪ Behind his rich Southern daddy with a mighty touch ♪
♪ They sent me out of here by sundown,
they said good luck ♪
♪ You might say I was the stranger who knew too
much ♪
♪ Somebody took a hope lock
from my heart ♪
♪ And threw it down your back roads,
Tennessee ♪
♪ You
feel the North wind blow,
that's only me ♪
♪ You wanna hear some rock and roll
from your back roads, Tennessee ♪
♪ I'm not the bad city girl come down to rape you ♪
♪ I'm not the hometown queen who wants to save you ♪
♪ I just heard you calling to my soul from your back roads,
Tennessee ♪
Thank you.
Okay.