tennessee

Lyrics

i kissed you cause i've never been an angel, i learned to say hosannas on my knees, but they threw me out of sunday school when i was nine, and the sisters said i did just as i pleased, even so i try to be a good girl, it's only what i want that makes me weak, i had no desire to be a child of sin, then you went and pressed your whiskers to my cheek, fa la la la, fa la la lee, now let me go, my honey oh, back to tennessee, it's beef steak when i'm working, whiskey when i'm dry, sweet heaven when i die, now i've tried drinking rye and gamblin', dancing with damnation is a ball, but of all the little ways i've found to hurt myself, well you might be my favorite one of all, fa la la la, fa la la lee, now let me go, my honey oh, back to tennessee, it's beef steak when i'm working, whiskey when i'm dry, sweet heaven when i die, why can't i go and live the life of riley?, why can't i go back home to apple pie?, cause your affront to my virtue was a touch too much, but you left a little twinkle in my eye, fa la la la, fa la la lee, now let me go, my honey oh, back to tennessee, it's beef steak when i'm working, whiskey when i'm dry, sweet heaven when i die, now some will come confessing of transgressions, some will come confessing of their love, you were there strumming on your gay guitar, you were trying to tell me something with your thumb, fa la la la, fa la la lee, now let me go, my honey oh, back to tennessee, it's beef steak when i'm working, whiskey when i'm dry, sweet heaven when i die