(Ben Peters)      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 Primised 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 a 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.      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.      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 wanna 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.      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.      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...