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 Repeat Intro 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 Repeat Intro 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 Repeat Intro 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
