Well I left home at a crack of
dawn just about a year ago
I thumbed my way cross the USA and I
learned a lot I didn't know
The Promised Land that I thought I'd
find was always just ahead of me
Until one day when I realized
I left it back in Tennessee
And that's why I'm going back to my
Tennessee girl and a Tennessee way of life
And I'm gonna ask my Tennessee
girl to be my Tennessee wife
Tonight I slept in a hobo camp
workin' out like dog by day
I never got enough to get ahead
just enough to make my way
Cold and tired when the evening
come all I had to ease my mind
Was thinkin' bout the place I started
from and the girl that I left behind
There ain't no place that I been at all
that I would gonna settle in
And every town that I travel through
made me want to go home again
The green green grass and the rollin'
hills seem to keep a callin' me
Back to the place where I was born
and the girl that I long to see
