(Porter Wagoner)



Well, just before the sun rise in the morning

I'll be on the highway headed home

Home is just a little bit east of Nashville

Where the Tennessee River winds along.



Lord, I'm gonna hear the roosters crow in Sourwood Mountains

I got that homesick feeling in my bones

I'd give these traveler blues for some Tennessee sunshine

Tennessee sunshine and you loving me.



I worked in the Texas sand a pickin' cotton

And I tried rodeo in last fall

And I worked in factory in Deoria Illinois

And traveled Canada east to Montreal.



Lord, I wanna hear the roosters crow in Sourwood Mountains

I got that homesick feeling in my bones

I'd give these traveler blues for some Tennessee sunshine

Tennessee sunshine and you loving me.



Wonder if the folks back home will know me

Since they saw me I've lost thirty pounds

I sure have missed my mama's country cooking

And the Sunday singing and dinner on the ground.



Lord, I wanna hear the roosters crow in Sourwood Mountains

I got that homesick feeling in my bones

I'd give these traveler blues for some Tennessee sunshine

Tennessee sunshine and you loving me.



Tennessee sunshine (loving me), Tennessee sunshine (loving me)

Tennessee sunshine (loving me), Tennessee sunshine (loving me...)