Gimme a "T" for Texas, gimme a "T" for Tennessee.
Oh, gimme a "T" for Texas, gimme a "T" for Tennessee.
Gimme a "T" for Thelma, woman made a fool out of me.

If you don't want me, baby, mama you sure don't got to stall.
Oh, if you don't want me, baby, mama you sure don't got to stall.
Well, I have more pretty women than a passenger train can haul.

I'm gonna buy myself a shotgun, one with long shiny barrel.
Gonna buy myself a shotgun, one with long shiny barrel.
I'm goin' shoot myself a rounder, oh, that stole away my gal.

I'd rather drink your muddy water, sleep down in a hollog low,
I'd rather drink your muddy water, sleep down in a hollog low,
than to be in the land of Georgia treated like a dirty dog.

If you don't want me, baby, mama you sure don't got to stall.
Oh, if you don't want me, baby, mama you sure don't got to stall.
Well, I have more pretty women than a passenger train can haul.

I'd rather drink yuour muddy water, sleep down in a hollog low,
I'd rather drink yuour muddy water, sleep down in a hollog low,
than to be in the land of Georgia treated like a dirty dog.

Gimme a "T" for Texas, gimme a "T" for Tennessee.
Gimme a "T" for Thelma, woman made a fool out of me.

Gimme a "T" for Texas, gimme a "T" for Tennessee.
Gimme a "T" for Thelma, woman made a fool out of me.
Gimme a "T" for Thelma, woman made a fool out of me.

            - Jimmy Rodgers