Drive By Truckers - 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