Lyrics

Tennessee Serenade
© 2008 Bruce Mills (ASCAP)
© 2014 Bruce Mills (Revised) (SOCAN)

My Tennessee girl is all alone
She sits by her window with the telephone
She's waiting to see me or just to hear my voice
My beautiful girl in Tennessee

Chorus
A few souvenirs of my Tennessee home
Those sweet Memphis blues
My fine blue suede shoes
Tobacco and moonshine
Up those smoky hills
Oh, Tennessee girl
You're my serenade

California bound I packed up my gear
I said, "Darling, I'll come back for you next year
But please understand - I got to make out it here
There's nothing for me in Tennessee"

Then a stranger I met on the Arizona line - he said
"Listen my brother - you're wasting your time
There ain't nothing out here like what you left behind
No Tennessee love you're gonna find"

Chorus

My Tennessee girl - she's waiting for me
In the house on the hill - under the old apple trees
She's dreaming of dancing and kissing me
I'm on my way back to Tennessee

Chorus / End