Down Home In Tennessee 1915

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 2 Apr 2009
2009

I'm so happy, oh, so happy,
don't you envy me?
I leave today at three
for sunny Tennessee,
Dad and mother,
sis' and brother
waiting for me there.
And at the table, next to Mabel
there's an extra chair.

Back home in Tennessee
Just try to picture me
right on my mother's knee,
she thinks the world of me,
all I can think of tonight
is a field of snowy white;
Banjos ringing,
darkies singing
all this world seems bright.
The roses round the door
makes me love mother more.
I'll see my sweetheart Flo
and friends I used to know,
why, they'll be right there to meet me,
Just imagine how they'll greet me
when I get back
when I get back
to my home in Tennessee.

Back home in Tennessee
Just try to picture me
right on my mother's knee,
she thinks the world of me,
all I can think of tonight
is a field of snowy white;
Banjos ringing,
darkies singing
all this world seems bright.
The roses round the door
makes me love mother more.
I'll see my sweetheart Flo
and friends I used to know,
why, they'll be right there to meet me,
Just imagine how they'll greet me
when I get back
when I get back
to my home in Tennessee.

At the station my relations
all will be on hand,
with a Hometown band,
The best band in the land,
Hezekiah and Maria
they'll hand me a laugh,
and my old dad will be so glad
he'll kill the fatted calf.

Back home in Tennessee
Just try to picture me
right on my mother's knee,
she thinks the world of me,
all I can think of tonight
is a field of snowy white;
Banjos ringing,
darkies singing
all this world seems bright.
The roses round the door
makes me love mother more.
I'll see my sweetheart Flo
and friends I used to know,
why, they'll be right there to meet me,
Just imagine how they'll greet me
when I get back
when I get back
to my home in Tennessee.

Back home in Tennessee
Just try to picture me
right on my mother's knee,
she thinks the world of me,
all I can think of tonight
is a field of snowy white;
Banjos ringing,
darkies singing
all this world seems bright.
The roses round the door
makes me love mother more.
I'll see my sweetheart Flo
and friends I used to know,
why, they'll be right there to meet me,
Just imagine how they'll greet me
when I get back
when I get back
to my home in Tennessee.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Down Home In Tennessee 1915
Music by Walter Donaldson
Lyrics by William Jerome
© MCMXV by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. - N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 2 April 2009 at 12.43
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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