The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee Song Lyrics and Chords
The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee Song Lyrics and Chords by Bill Clifton
The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee
Recorded by Bill Clifton
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On one morning bright and clear
My old
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folks and I drew near
Just a
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village down in sunny Tenne
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ssee
I'd been speeding on the train
That would
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bring me back again
To that
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girl I left in sunny Tenne
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I could hear those voices singing as she
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bid farewell to
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me
Far across the fields of
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cotton my old
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homestead I could
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see
As the
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moon rose in its glory then I
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told my saddest
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story
Of that
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girl I left in sunny Tenne
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ssee
Now the train drew up at last old
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familiar scene's had passed
And I
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kissed my mother at the station
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door
Then kind friends that gathered round tears on
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every face I found
There I
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missed the one that I'd been waiting
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for
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I just
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whispered mother dear where is
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Mary she's not here
All the world seemed dark and
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sadness came to
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me
She just
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pointed to the spot in that
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little church yard lot
Where my
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sweetheart sleeps in sunny Tenne
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ssee
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FAQ
Who sang the the song The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee?
- The song The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee was sang by Bill Clifton.
Who is Bill Clifton?
- Bill Clifton (born William August Marburg on April 5, 1931) is an American bluegrass musician and singer who is credited with having organized one of the first bluegrass festivals in the United States in 1961.
