C          C/B         C/A        C/B     C          C/B         C/A        C/B
Talk about troubles, I tell you I got 'em shovellin' sand on the Mississipi bottom
C   C/B   C/A  C/B   C   C/B  C/A   C/B
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah
C            C/B      C/A     C/B         C     C/B           C/A        C/B
I killed me a man in Shelby County, they turned me in for the government bounty
C   C/B   C/A  C/B  C    C/B  C/A   C/B
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah

[Chorus]
F          G      Am         F                                C
Tennessee owns my soul, that little Georgia gal just wouldn't listen
    F                             C     F                                 C
She tried to run away with Stoney Lee I caught him and I put him six feet under
  F                   E   F         G        Am
I wonder if he misses me? Tennessee owns my soul

[Verse 2]
C          C/B    C/A       C/B        C            C/B      C/A        C/B
Rottin' in a cell I try to forget her, wishin' like hell I'd never ever met her
C   C/B   C/A  C/B  C    C/B  C/A   C/B
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah
C          C/B        C/A    C/B   C          C/B            C/A        C/B
Gotta get away, gotta see my baby, gotta leave tonight, she's drivin' me crazy
C   C/B   C/A  C/B  C    C/B  C/A   C/B
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah

[Chorus]
F          G      Am         F                                C
Tennessee owns my soul, that little Georgia gal just wouldn't listen
    F                             C     F                                 C
She tried to run away with Stoney Lee I caught him and I put him six feet under
  F                   E   F         G        Am
I wonder if he misses me? Tennessee owns my soul

[Verse 3]
C                C/B         C/A        C/B        C          C/B         C/A           C/B
I make it to the top of the twenty foot wall, the guard - I'm hit, and I think I'm gonna fall
C   C/B   C/A  C/B  C    C/B  C/A   C/B
Yeah yeah yeah,     yeah yeah yeah

C            C/B   C/A      C/B      C            C/B    C/A        C/B
Laying on a broken back and cryin', everything's goin' black and I'm dyin'
C    C/B  C/A   C/B            F         G       Am    F         G       A
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah Tennessee owns my soul, Tennessee owns my soul