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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":613510,"song":"Tennessee Plates","artist":"John Hiatt","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11573457-tennessee-plates-chords-by-john-hiatt/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/613510?type=chord","rating":4.80457,"votes":64,"content":"John Hiatt - Tennessee Plates\r\n\r\nINTRO:\r\n[ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] / [ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI woke up in a hotel and I didn't know what to do[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                               [ch]B[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI turned the TV on and wrote a letter to you[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]E[/ch]                                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe news was talkin' 'bout a dragnet up on the interstate[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]E[/ch]                               [ch]B[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSaid they were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] / [ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                                           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSince I left California baby, things have gotten worse[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                                [ch]B[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSeems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTell that judge in Bakersfield that my trial will have to wait[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]E[/ch]                                [ch]B[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nDown here they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nShe was shiverin' in the dark, so I offered her a ride[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThree bank jobs later, four cars hot wired[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWe crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] / [ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIf they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't 'a let us in[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                       [ch]B[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhen we landed in Memphis like original sin[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]                                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nUp Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]B[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSee we were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] / [ch]E[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab]              [ch]E[/ch]                                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWell, there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                        [ch]B[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd there wasn't one Lincoln and there wasn't one Dodge[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                               [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd there wasn't one Japanese model or make[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                                [ch]B[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nJust pretty, pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nShe saw him singing once when she was seventeen[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd ever since that day she's been living in between[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnyway he wouldn't care, hell he gave them to his friends + INSTR. A E (B E)[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]                                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell, this ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from / It's the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain[/tab]\r\n\r\n        E                          A (build up)     E (stop)\r\n[tab]                                                                             [ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] / [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhere yours sincerely's doin' five to eight … / Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates[/tab]","plain_text":"John Hiatt - Tennessee Plates\n\nINTRO:\nE E E A / E E B E\n\n\n\n\n\n\nE E E A / E E B E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nE E E A / E E B E\n\n\n\n\n\n\nE E E A / E E B E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n        E                          A (build up)     E (stop)","chords":["E","A","B"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}