New york city ain’t no kind of place   For a country girl with a friendly face   If you smile people look at you funny   They take it wrong   The greenest state in the land of the free   And the home of the grand ole opry   Is calling me back to my smoky mountain home   I wish I had my old fishin’ pole   And was sitting on the banks of the fishing hole   Eating green apples and waiting for the fish to bite   Life ain’t as simple as it used to be   Since the big apple took a bite out of me   And lord, I’m so tennessee homesick that I could die      Chorus:      But I ain’t been home in I don’t know when   If I had it all to do over again   Tonight I’d sleep in my old feather bed      What I wouldn’t give for a little bitty taste   Of mama’s homemade chocolate cake   Tennessee homesick blues running through my head      Mama you can fluff my feather bed   Just as soon as I can I’m gonna head   Back to the tennessee hills and it better be soon   Daddy you can load the rifles up   We’re gonna load them dogs on the pickup truck   And take off to calhoun country and catch us a coon      Repeat chorus      Eatin’ grits and gravy and country ham   Go to church on sunday with dinner on the grounds   Tennessee homesick blues are runnin’ through my head      Repeat chorus      Good lord have mercy on a country girl   Tryin’ to make a living in a rhinestone world   It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world   With tennessee homesick blues runnin’ through my head   I’ve got those tennessee homesick blues runnin’ through my head   Tennessee homesick blues