Tennessee by The Wreckers Lyric & Guitar Chords

If you are looking for Tennessee guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play Tennessee by The Wreckers using guitar or guitar.
This song by The Wreckers can also be played by that instruments.
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Tennessee guitar chords has rhythm and included in Stand Still, Look Pretty (2006) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

Tennessee by The Wreckers Guitar Chords


Capo on fourth fret

this is the riff after many lines during the verses,
I’m referring to it as X:


e ----------------------
B ----------------------
G ----------------------
D --0-0--2-2/4-2-0---0h2
A -----------------3----
E ----------------------

also, when switching chords often hit the bottom string at 0
and then hold to correct fret, such as:

!
G


e --3-----3-----
B --3-----3-----
G --0-----0-----
D --2-----0-----
A --0h3---2-----
E --x-----0h3---

intro:

!
G
!
G


e ------------------
B ------------------
G --0---------------
D ----4-2--0--------
A -----------0h2----
E ------------------

verse 1:

!
I never had all the
G
answers
Em D (X)
I never had enough time
But,
!
I sure had all the
G
reasons
Em D (X)
Why you weren’t what I wanted to find

verse 2:

!
I never laid all my c
G
ards out
Em D (X)
You just wanted to play
!
The king he waited on my
G
doorstep
Em D (X)
While the joker and me went on our way

chorus:

!
Maybe I was
D
much too selfish
But
G
baby [G/F#]you’re still on my
C
mind
C
[G/B]
Now I’m
!
grown and
D
all alone
And
G
wishing I was [G/F#]with you
Em
tonight
Cause I
C
can guarantee
C
[G/B]
Am7

Things are sweeter in
!
Tennessee
G
!
G

after chorus:


e ------------------------
B ------------------------
G --0---------------------
D ----4-2--0--------------
A -----------0h2--2/32-0-
E ------------------------

verse 3:

!
These days everything is al
G
l business
I’m
Em
never in one place for t
D
oo long
!
There’s no lack of arms ar
G
ound me
Em D (X)
But I still wonder if somewhere I went wrong

chorus:

!
Maybe I was
D
much too selfish
But
G
baby [G/F#]you’re still on my
C
mind
C
[G/B]
Now I’m
!
grown and
D
all alone
And
G
wishing I was [G/F#]with you
Em
tonight
Cause I
C
can guarantee
C
[G/B]
Am7

Things are sweeter in
!
Tennessee
G
!
G

bridge:

Am
And I’d wish on every star in the
Em
southern sky
For that
C
man in our life
If
D
I did not think that, oh

chorus:

!
Maybe I was
D
much too selfish
But
G
baby [G/F#]you’re still on my
C
mind
C
[G/B]
Now I’m
!
grown and
D
all alone
And
G
wishing I was [G/F#]with you
Em
tonight
Cause I
C
can guarantee
C
[G/B]
Am7

Things are sweeter in
!
Tennessee
G

Yes, I c
!
an guarantee[G/B]
Things are sweeter in
!
Tennessee
G
!
G

the ending is just Cadd9 and G, sometimes sliding the high strings
like a D chord formation from 5th to 7th fret (e string)

/ : slide up
: slide down
h : hold

If you want to learn The Wreckers Tennessee guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play Tennessee. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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