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Song: Pulaski
Artist: Drive-By Truckers
Album: Go-Go Boots
Songwriter: Mike Cooley
Tune 1 whole step down
Capo 5
Intro (x1)
D G D D G D
Bm G D G A D
Verse 1:
D G D
She was fresh out of college
D G D
The first one in her family to go
Bm G D
and California seemed like heaven,
G A D
Pulaski, Tennessee was her home
Repeat Intro
Verse 2:
D G D
She worked on losing her southern accent
D G D
and turned her back on her Baptist ways
Bm G D
She bought some clothes that barely
D G
covered her fair skinned body,
A D
Went to Nashville and caught a plane
G D
Well the clouds rushed beneath her
Bm A
as the LA smog filled the air
G D Bm
And she smiled when the airlock opened
G A D
The Pacific breeze blew through her hair
Repeat Intro
Verse 3:
D G D
She thought about the boys from Alabama
D G D
Who came into town every Friday night
Bm G D
and drank beer out of big glass quart bottles
G A D
and left their trail of blood and tears behind
G D
She thought the men in California would be different
Bm A
She'd grown up watching them on her TV
G D Bm
But the men she came to know in California
G A D
Left her longing for Pulaski, Tennessee
Repeat Intro
Bridge:
Bm A
Good ideas always start with a full glass
G D A
and just breathing here can make a girl's nose bleed
G D Bm
Dreams here live and die just like a stray dog on a
G A D
dirt road somewhere in Tennessee
Verse 4:
D G D
The storefronts all filled up with eyeballs
D G D
As the policemen clear out the street
Bm G D
For a line of cars with their headlights burning
G A D
Driving slow through Pulaski, Tennessee
Repeat Intro
Transcribed by Justin Northcutt
04/30/2011