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