Intro (x1)
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Bm      G       D       G       A       D

Verse 1:
D       G       D
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,
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Pulaski, Tennessee was her home

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Verse 2:
D               G               D
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
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 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

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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

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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
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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
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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