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INTRO:
D G D A D
D G
I woke up in a hotel and I didn't know what to do
D A D
I turned the TV on and wrote a letter to you
D G G
The news was talkin' 'bout a dragnet up on the interstate
D A D
Said they were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
D G D A D
D G
Since I left California baby, things have gotten worse
D A D
Seems the land of opportunity for me is just a curse
D G G
Tell that judge in Bakersfield that my trial will have to wait
D A D
Down here they're lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
G
It was somewhere in Nevada, it was cold outside
D
She was shiverin' in the dark, so I offered her a ride
G
Three bank jobs later, four cars hot wired
A
We crossed the Mississippi like an oil slick fire
D G D A D
D G
If they'd known what we was up to they wouldn't 'a let us in
D A D
When we landed in Memphis like original sin
D G
Up Elvis Presley Boulevard to the Graceland gates
D A D
See we were lookin' for a Cadillac with Tennessee plates
D G D A D
D G
Well, there must have been a dozen of them parked in that garage
D A D
And there wasn't one Lincoln and there wasn't one Dodge
D G
And there wasn't one Japanese model or make
D A D
Just pretty, pretty Cadillacs with Tennessee plates
G
She saw him singing once when she was seventeen
D
And ever since that day she's been living in between
G
I was never king of nothin' but this wild weekend
A
Anyway he wouldn't care, hell he gave them to his friends
D G D A D
D! D!
Well, this ain't no hotel I'm writin' you from
D! D!
It's the Tennessee prison up at Brushy Mountain
D! G G
Where yours sincerely's doin' five to eight …
D!
Stampin' out my time makin' Tennessee plates
D G D A D
D G D A D!
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Note Strum Pattern I think its as follows
D G D A D 1eANDa 2eANDa 3eANDa 4 AND 1eANDa 2eANDa 3eANDa 4 AND