Nobody Knows

Scott Whitby, 2022

Nobody knows about West Tennessee

Nobody even cares

West Tennessee don't care either

It likes being nowhere

Whoever heard of the Obion River

Where's the Forked Deer

Get lost in Hatchie Bottom

That's when you find fear

Spot of land

Holds the world together

Growing cotton and music

For all the world to treasure

West Tennessee is more than bodies Floatin' down the river

Cotton and music is what it is

And all it has been forever

Mississippi is to the West

With all its poison fish

Tennessee is on the other side

No better for to wish

Friendship's Bloody Bucket

Samburg Bar and Cafe

The 641 Club in Puryear

They ain't no place to pray

Spot of land

Holds the world together

Growing cotton and music

For all the world to treasure

West Tennessee is more than bodies Floatin' down the river

Cotton and music is what it is

And all it has been forever

West Tennessee has nothing to say

West Tennessee can only pray

West Tennessee on a rainy day

It's a complicated bouquet

Is it God's resort

Or the devil's fiance

West Tennessee, West Tennessee

Finding your Roots or Walking Tall

Nobody cares about West Tennessee

Nobody cares at all

West Tennessee, West Tennessee

Whether Puryear or Crockett Mills

Nobody cares if you don't know

Nobody there ever will