Tennessee Plates Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

EEEA EEBE

Since I Eleft California baby, things have gottenA worse

Seems thEe land of opportunity foBr me is just a cEurse

Tell thaEt judge in Bakersfield that my trial wilAl have to wait

Down here they'rEe lookin' for a Cadillac with TeBnnessee Eplates

It was sAomewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside

She was Eshiverin' in the dark, so I offered her a ride

Three baAnk jobs later, four cars hot wired

We crossBed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire

Intro

EEEA EEBE

If they'Ed known what we was up to they wouldn't 'a let uAs in

When we Elanded in Memphis like oriBginal sEin

Up ElvEis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gateAs

See we were lookEin' for a Cadillac with BTennessee pElates

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Well, there muEst have been a dozen of them parked in that garageA

And there wEasn't one Lincoln and there wBasn't one DEodge

And therEe wasn't one Japanese model or mAake

Just preEtty, pretty Cadillacs wiBth Tennessee plaEtes

She saAw him singing once when she was seventeen

And everE since that day she's been living in between

I was neAver king of nothin' but this wild weekend

Anyway hBe wouldn't care, hell he gave them to his friends + INSTR. A E (B E)

Well thiEs ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from / EIt's the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain

Where yoEurs sincerely's doin' five Ato eight E A E A E B E

/ Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates