Biography:
Jeannie C. Riley (born Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson on October 19, 1945) is an American country and gospel music singer.
She is known for her major 1968 hit Harper Valley PTA that made her the first ever female singer to have a song reach #1 on both the country and pop music charts. The record quickly became one of the most legendary country music songs of all time. Written by Tom T. Hall, the song was released on the Plantation Records label. At the time
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Country Girl
Jeannie C. Riley
Album: Harper Valley Pta: Very Best of (1999)
[Intro]
C C C C
C F C
New York is a long way from Texas
F C
Vegas is a long way from Abilene
F C
I spend lots of my time flying out to LA
G7 C
And if you've never been there you don't know how lonesome big towns can be
[Chorus]
C F C
Oh what I'd give to be a country girl again
F G7
To be with my people my man and my kids
C F C
To live in a house about a mile down the road from mama
F C G7 C
Oh Lord what I'd give to be a country girl again
C F C
To go walking down a country road at sunset
F C
And see colors you could almost touch right over head
F C
To hear the gentle breeze is blowing at the treetops
G7 C
No out in the country there is no talk that God is dead
[Chorus]
C F C
Oh what I'd give to be a country girl again
F G7
To be with my people my man and my kids
C F C
To live in a house about a mile down the road from mama
F C G7 C
Oh Lord what I'd give to be a country girl again
F C G7 C
Oh what I'd give to be a country girl again
Jeannie C. Riley
Album: Harper Valley Pta: Very Best of (1999)
[Intro]
C C C C
C F C
New York is a long way from Texas
F C
Vegas is a long way from Abilene
F C
I spend lots of my time flying out to LA
G7 C
And if you've never been there you don't know how lonesome big towns can be
[Chorus]
C F C
Oh what I'd give to be a country girl again
F G7
To be with my people my man and my kids
C F C
To live in a house about a mile down the road from mama
F C G7 C
Oh Lord what I'd give to be a country girl again
C F C
To go walking down a country road at sunset
F C
And see colors you could almost touch right over head
F C
To hear the gentle breeze is blowing at the treetops
G7 C
No out in the country there is no talk that God is dead
[Chorus]
C F C
Oh what I'd give to be a country girl again
F G7
To be with my people my man and my kids
C F C
To live in a house about a mile down the road from mama
F C G7 C
Oh Lord what I'd give to be a country girl again
F C G7 C
Oh what I'd give to be a country girl again
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