Billy Joe Shaver

Texas Uphere Tennessee

Billy Joe Shaver


Tom: A

      A                              D             B
        I come up here from Waco on a U-Hault-It freight
               A          D           B               E
        In my mind Tennessee to me was just another state
                    A                              D              B
        Now we're trying to get into how they're swinging on the gate
            A                D                B            E
        I'm about to go down under from that hurry up and wait

[Chorus]
     E             A                          D            B
        Don't you roll me another one,don't try to mother me
               A                D             B                E
        I know i can't see the forest but i think i feel the trees
            A                    D                    B
        Anyway,goin's where i guess i'm always gonna be
              A                D             E7            A
        I declare i feel like Texas when i'm uphere Tennessee

[Verse 2]
      A                                      D                B
        I done built myself a highway on this ceilin' in the hall
              A             D              B                E
        Over yonder in the corner gettin' turned on by the wall
                  A                                 D               B
        Come the mornin' that old dawnin' will be drinkin' up like me
                  A              D                  B         E
        Ain't no holler log what i came off when i get up a tree

[Chorus]
        E             A                          D            B
        Don't you roll me another one,don't try to mother me
               A                D             B                E
        I know i can't see the forest but i think i feel the trees
            A                    D                    B
        Anyway,goin's where i guess i'm always gonna be
              A                D             E7            A
        I declare i feel like Texas when i'm uphere Tennessee