• Song:

    Pulaski

  • Artist:

    Drive-by Truckers

  • Album:

    Go-Go Boots

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

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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

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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

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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
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