A5 D5 A5 I say how could this be A5 D5 Left her back in Tennessee A5 D5 There's a thousand miles between A5 D5 A5 I'm going out of my head A5 D5 But I can't take back the words I said A5 D5 A5 Just to fill her empty bed D5 Said you can drag me back to Nashville E5 A5 D5 <--(x4) But you'll drag me back to Nashville dead A5 D5 A5 D5 She wanted nothing more in her life A5 D5 Than to see her name in lights A5 D5 So I came along for the ride A5 D5 A5 D5 But there was just no end A5 D5 Smokey bars and unpaid rent A5 D5 A5 Day job blues held by a thread D5 Oh you can drag me back to Nashville E5 A5 D5 But you'll drag me back to Nashville dead F#5 North Dakota boy in Tennessee D5 A5 E5 That singin' town had got the best of me, oh yeah F#5 And I lost my love to the dream D5 E5 Looking back I lost a part of me, and so I said D5 You can drag me back to Nashville E5 A5 D5 A5 But you'll drag me back to Nashville dead Instrumental: F#5 D5 A5 E5 F#5 D5 E5 then... A5 D5 (x4) A5 D5 A5 I say how could this be REPEAT Chorus D5 Oh you can drag me back to Nashville E5 A5 D5 A5 D5 But you'll drag me back to Nashville dead A5 D5 A5 D5 North Dakota boy in Tennessee A5 D5 A5 D5 I say how could this be A5 D5 A5 D5 North Dakota boy in Tennessee A5 D5 (keep repeating til end) Chords: A = x02220 D = xx0232 E = 022100 F#m = 244222(bar chord)