Song: Pulaski
Artist: Drive-By Truckers
Album: Go-Go Boots
Songwriter: Mike Cooley

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Capo 5

Intro (x1)
DG	D (xx0232@1)DG	D (xx0232@1)BmG	DG	AD

Verse 1:
DG	DShe (xx0232@1)was fresh out of college
DG	DThe (xx0232@1)first one in her family to go
Bm (x24432@1)GD
and California seemed like heaven,
G (320003@1)A (x02220@1)DPulaski, (xx0232@1)Tennessee was her home

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Verse 2:
D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)DShe (xx0232@1)worked on losing her southern accent
D (xx0232@1)               GD
and turned her back on her Baptist ways
Bm (x24432@1)G (320003@1)DShe (xx0232@1)bought some clothes that barely
D (xx0232@1)	G (320003@1)covered her fair skinned body,
A (x02220@1)	DWent (xx0232@1)to Nashville and caught a plane
G (320003@1)	DWell (xx0232@1)the clouds rushed beneath her 
Bm (x24432@1)	Aas (x02220@1)the LA smog filled the air
G (320003@1)	DBm
And she smiled when the airlock opened
G (320003@1)A (x02220@1)D (xx0232@1)
The Pacific breeze blew through her hair

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Verse 3:
D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)DShe (xx0232@1)thought about the boys from Alabama
D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)DWho (xx0232@1)came into town every Friday night
Bm (x24432@1)G (320003@1)	Dand (xx0232@1)drank beer out of big glass quart bottles
G (320003@1)A (x02220@1)Dand (xx0232@1)left their trail of blood and tears behind
G (320003@1)		DShe (xx0232@1)thought the men in California would be different
Bm (x24432@1)	AShe'd (x02220@1)grown up watching them on her TV
G (320003@1)	DBm
But the men she came to know in California
G (320003@1)A (x02220@1)DLeft (xx0232@1)her longing for Pulaski, Tennessee

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Bridge:
Bm (x24432@1)		AGood (x02220@1)ideas always start with a full glass
G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)	Aand (x02220@1)just breathing here can make a girl's nose bleed
G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)	BmDreams (x24432@1)here live and die just like a stray dog on a 
G (320003@1)A (x02220@1)Ddirt (xx0232@1)road somewhere in Tennessee

Verse 4:
DG		DThe (xx0232@1)storefronts all filled up with eyeballs
DG		DAs (xx0232@1)the policemen clear out the street
Bm (x24432@1)                 G (320003@1)DFor (xx0232@1)a line of cars with their headlights burning
G (320003@1)       A (x02220@1)       DDriving (xx0232@1)slow through Pulaski, Tennessee

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Transcribed by Justin Northcutt
04/30/2011