Nick Evans Mowery - Tennessee

TENNESSEE
Words and Music by Nick Evans Mowery/BMI
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Hey dad, I remember you plowing them fields
Oh hide them bloodstains on your fingers
All the fields are all long gone, just a memory of a song
The old gravel road is long to our feet
Here we are in Erin, Tennessee

Mother tried to save the boy with the spotted fever
Tried to save the newborn from the cold
The calf was up and walkin’, the parents on the news were talkin’
The disease was slowly stalking, I wonder why
The boy with spotted fever had to die

Ole friend named Davy was a Boy Scout
Never killed him nothing he wouldn’t eat
But the college was a callin’, the temperatures were fallin’
His family was crawlin’ in the grief
Davy died on a freeway in Tennessee

Old black man pushin’ 60 as a drunk
He used to sleep outside my daddy’s store all alone
I’ma waitin’ for the bus, three men began to fuss
They kicked him in the gutter, no reason why
I helped him up and gave’m my lunch money

I’m not sure but I think I know the answer
It’s hidden in the fence, in the hay bails and the trees
This mornin’s dew is chillin’, those catfish I’ll be reelin’
A peaceful, mellow feelin’ I believe
It’s the reason my daddy moved to Tennessee

Written by:
Nick Mowery

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