• Song:

    Tennessee Plates

  • Artist:

    John Hiatt

  • Album:

    The Best Of John Hiatt ...

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John Hiatt ? Tennessee Plates
I worked long on this tab and I'm pretty sure it's correct. Play this terrific
 song from the "Slow Turning" album 
4X INTRO: EEEA / EEBE
E (022100@1)			AI (x02220@1)woke up in a hotel and I didn't know what to do
E (022100@1)		B (x2444x@1)name="chord_022100@1">E
I turned the TV on and wrote a letter to you
		E (022100@1)		AThe (x02220@1)news was talkin' 'bout a dragnet up on the interstate
		E (022100@1)	B (x2444x@1)ESaid (022100@1)they were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates 
INTRO: EEEA / EEBE
	E (022100@1)			ASince (x02220@1)I left California baby, things have gotten worse
	E (022100@1)	B (x2444x@1)ESeems (022100@1)the land of opportunity for me is just a curse
	E (022100@1)			ATell (x02220@1)that judge in Bakersfield that my trial will have to wait
		E (022100@1)		B (x2444x@1)name="chord_022100@1">E
Down here they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates 

	AIt (x02220@1)was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside
	EShe (022100@1)was shiverin' in the dark, so I offered her a ride
	AThree (x02220@1)bank jobs later, four cars hot wired
	BWe (x2444x@1)crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire 
INTRO: EEEA / EEBE
	E (022100@1)				AIf (x02220@1)they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't 'a let us in
	E (022100@1)	  B (x2444x@1)EWhen (022100@1)we landed in Memphis like original sin
      E (022100@1)				AUp (x02220@1)Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates
		E (022100@1)	B (x2444x@1)  ESee (022100@1)we were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates 
2X iNTRO: EEEA / EEBE
	      E (022100@1)					AWell, (x02220@1)there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage
	   E (022100@1)		B (x2444x@1)  E (022100@1)	
And there wasn't one Lincoln and there wasn't one Dodge
	E (022100@1)		AAnd (x02220@1)there wasn't one Japanese model or make
	E (022100@1)	B (x2444x@1)EJust (022100@1)pretty, pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates 

      AShe (x02220@1)saw him singing once when she was seventeen
	EAnd (022100@1)ever since that day she's been living in between
	AI (x02220@1)was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend
	BAnyway (x2444x@1)he wouldn't care, hell he gave them to his friends + INSTR. A E (B E)
	E (022100@1)			EWell (022100@1)this ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from / It's the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain
	E (022100@1)	   A(build up)      E(stop) (022100@1)	AE   A (x02220@1)name="chord_022100@1">E / B (x2444x@1)name="chord_022100@1">E
Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight   / Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates


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