A              D                 A 
I wonder if it's  rainin' in the mountains
                    D                A    
I wonder how the  old town looks to--day
     D                                  A 
And if the church is there beside the river
       B7                         E 
Could I go back and find where mama lay

     A                  D                 A 
Does life still go to sleep just after sunset
                           A7         D 
Are the berries still as big on the vine
                                    A 
Do old men sit and talk about the old days
                      E             A 
The way they did in nineteen forty-nine

Chorus
     A7      D 
Oh Oh, Oh how I'd like to be
 A                     E      E7 
Back in the hills of Tennessee 
 A          D  
Oh Oh, Oh it would be so fine
    A                E                A 
If I could just go  back to nineteen forty-nine


     A              D               A 
I wonder if by chance they might remember
                    D            A    
A teenage boy so wild and fancy free
     D                                  A 
Who always loved guitars and country music
       B7                         E 
If I went back would they remember me

     A           D                 A 
I wonder what became of Kathryn Ackers
                       A7         D 
The girl who broke my heart at seventeen
                                    A 
I barely can remember what she looks like
              E             A 
Thirty years ago she was my dream

Chorus
     A7      D 
Oh Oh, Oh how I'd like to be
 A                     E      E7 
Back in the hills of Tennessee 
 A          D  
Oh Oh, Oh it would be so fine
    A                E                A 
If I could just go  back to nineteen forty-nine


     A              D                      A 
For many years I've searched the wide world over
                    D            A    
For what I don't recall and didn't find
      D                                  A 
And now I'm searching pictures in my memory
                  E             A 
For Tennessee in nineteen forty nine

Chorus
     A7      D 
Oh Oh, Oh how I'd like to be
 A                     E      E7 
Back in the hills of Tennessee 
 A          D  
Oh Oh, Oh it would be so fine
    A                E                A 
If I could just go  back to nineteen forty-nine