Pulaski

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