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