Chords for Larry Sparks - Tennessee 1949

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_ _ _ _ I wonder [E] if it's raining [B] in the mountains, _ _ wonder how the [E] old town looks [B] today, _ and [E] if
the church is there beside it, _ _ [C#] could I go back and find where Mama [F#] lay?
The [B] lost hill bore [E] to sleep just [B] after sunset, _ Hargave still had to fit on [E] the vine,
the old man sit and talk [B] about the old days, the way they did in 1949.
_ _ _ Oh, I [E] _ could be [B] back in the [F#] hills of Tennessee, _ _ [B] oh, _ [E] it would be so fine, [B] if I could [F#] just go back to [B] 1949. _ _ _ _
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_ I wonder if [E] by chance they [B] might remember, _ _ teenage [E] boys so wild and [B] fancy free,
_ [E] who always loved guitars and [B] country music, _ [C#] if I went back would they [F#] remember me?
_ [B] I wonder what became of Catherine Akers, _ the girl who broke my heart at [E] seventeen,
_ I barely can remember [B] what she looked like, _ thirty years ago she was my dream.
_ _ Oh, I _ [E] _
could [B] be back in the [F#] hills of Tennessee, _ [B] _ oh, _ [E] it would be so fine, [B] if I could [F#] just go back to [B] 1949.
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For many [E] years I've searched the [B] wide world over, _ for what I [E] don't recall I didn't find,
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[E] now I'm searching pictures in my [B] memory, _ for [G#] Tennessee 1945.
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Oh, _ [E] I could be [B] back in the hills [F#] of Tennessee, _ _ oh, _ [E] it would be so fine, if I could [F#] just go back to [B] 1949. _ _
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