Tennessee Flat Top Box Acoustic Chords

Standard E tuning
e|---------------------------------|--4-|------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|----|------------------------------------|
G|------------4-0-4-0--------------|----|------------------------------------|
D|--0-2-4-5-0-5-0-5-3-2-0----------|----|--0-2-0-2--0-2-0-2--0-2-0-2--0-2-0-2|
A|-------------------------3-3-2-0-|-2--|------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|--3-|------------------------------------|       
 
[Verse 1]
 G                                D7
In a little cabaret in a South Texas border town
      D7
Sat a boy and his guitar
                          G
And the people came from miles around
              G                  D7
And all the girls from there to Austin
        D7                                   G
Were slipping away from home and putting jewelery in hock
             G                D7
To take the trip, to go and listen
         D7
To the little dark-haired boy
                                    G
That played the Tennessee flat top box
 
 And he would play
e|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------0-0----------|---2/4-0-2/4-0------------------------|
D|-----------------------2-----2-3-2-0--|---3/5-0-3/5-0--5-3-2-0---------------|
A|--0-2-3---0-2-3---0-2-3---------------|------------------------3-3-2-0-------|
E|-3------3-------3---------------------|--------------------------------3-----| 
 
[Verse 2]
 G
Well, he couldn't ride or wrangle
                        D7
And he never cared to make a dime
      D7                                            G
But give him his guitar, and he'd be happy all the time
              G                  D7
And all the girls from nine to ninety
        D7
Were snapping fingers, tapping toes
                        G
And begging him don't stop
      G                  D7
And hypnotized and fascinated
         D7
By the little dark-haired boy
                                   G
That played the Tennessee flat top box
 
 And he would play
e|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------0-0----------|---2/4-0-2/4-0------------------------|
D|-----------------------2-----2-3-2-0--|---3/5-0-3/5-0--5-3-2-0---------------|
A|--0-2-3---0-2-3---0-2-3---------------|------------------------3-3-2-0-------|
E|-3------3-------3---------------------|--------------------------------3-----| 
 
[Verse 3]
 G                                         D7
Then one day he was gone, and no one ever saw him around
       D7                                                G
He'd vanished like the breeze, they forgot him in the little town
              G                        D7
But all the girls still dreamed about him
            D7                                     G
And hung around the cabaret until the doors were locked
             G                D7
And then one day on the Hit Parade
        D7
Was a little dark-haired boy
                                    G
That played the Tennessee flat top box
 
 
[Outro]
 
 And he would play
e|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------0-0----------|---2/4-0-2/4-0------------------------|
D|-----------------------2-----2-3-2-0--|---3/5-0-3/5-0--5-3-2-0---------------|
A|--0-2-3---0-2-3---0-2-3---------------|------------------------3-3-2-0-------|
E|-3------3-------3---------------------|--------------------------------3-----|
 
 fade
e|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------|
D|--0-2-0-2--0-2-0-2--0-2-0-2--0-2-0-2|
A|------------------------------------|
E|-3--------3--------3--------3-------|
 
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