Tune 1 whole step down
Capo 5

Intro (x1)
D5      G5      D5       D5      G5      D5

B5      G5      D5      G5      A5      D5

Verse 1:
D5      G5      D5
She was fresh out of college
D5      G5      D5
The first one in her family to go
B5            G5      D5
and California seemed like heaven,
G5            A5            D5
Pulaski, Tennessee was her home

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Verse 2:
D5            G5            D5
She worked on losing her southern accent
D5                           G5      D5
and turned her back on her Baptist ways
B5            G5            D5
She bought some clothes that barely
D5                  G5      
covered her fair skinned body,
A5                  D5
Went to Nashville and caught a plane
G5                  D5
Well the clouds rushed beneath her 
B5                  A5
as the LA smog filled the air
G5                  D5      B5
And she smiled when the airlock opened
G5            A5            D5            
The Pacific breeze blew through her hair

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Verse 3:
D5            G5            D5
She thought about the boys from Alabama
D5            G5            D5
Who came into town every Friday night
B5            G5                  D5
and drank beer out of big glass quart bottles
G5            A5            D5
and left their trail of blood and tears behind
G5                        D5
She thought the men in California would be different
B5                  A5
She'd grown up watching them on her TV
G5                  D5      B5
But the men she came to know in California
G5            A5            D5
Left her longing for Pulaski, Tennessee

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Bridge:
B5                        A5
Good ideas always start with a full glass
G5            D5                  A5
and just breathing here can make a girl's nose bleed
G5            D5                  B5
Dreams here live and die just like a stray dog on a 
G5            A5            D5
dirt road somewhere in Tennessee

Verse 4:
D5      G5            D5
The storefronts all filled up with eyeballs
D5      G5            D5
As the policemen clear out the street
B5                             G5            D5
For a line of cars with their headlights burning
G5                   A5                   D5
Driving slow through Pulaski, Tennessee 

Repeat Intro

Transcribed by Justin Northcutt
04/30/2011