Tom: D
Intro (x1)
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Bm G D G A D
Verse 1:
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She was fresh out of college
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The first one in her family to go
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and California seemed like heaven,
G A D
Pulaski, Tennessee was her home
Repeat Intro
Verse 2:
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She worked on losing her southern accent
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and turned her back on her Baptist ways
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She bought some clothes that barely
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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 A smog filled the air
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And she smiled when the airlock opened
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The Pacific breeze blew through her hair
Repeat Intro
Verse 3:
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She thought about the boys from Alabama
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Who came into town every Friday night
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and drank beer out of big glass quart bottles
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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
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But the men she came to know in California
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Left her longing for Pulaski, Tennessee
Repeat Intro
Bridge:
Bm A
Good ideas always start with a full glass
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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
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dirt road somewhere in Tennessee
Verse 4:
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The storefronts all filled up with eyeballs
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As the policemen clear out the street
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For a line of cars with their headlights burning
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Driving slow through Pulaski, Tennessee
