[1] I wonder if It's [4] rainin' in the [1] mountains
I wonder how the [4] old town looks [1] today
And [4] if the church is there beside the [1] river
Could [2maj] I go back and find where mama [5] lay

[1] Does life still go to [4] sleep just after [1] sunset
Are the berries still as big on the [4] vine
Do old men sit and talk about the [1] old days
The way they did in [5] 1949 [1]

[1] Oh oh oh [4] how I'd like to be
[1] Back in the hills of [5] Tennessee
[1] Oh oh oh [4] it would be so fine
[1] If I could just go [5] back to [1] 1949

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

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

For many years I've searched the wide world over
For what I don't recall and didn't find
And now I'm searching pictures in my memory
For Tennessee 1949