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Pulaski
Drive-By Truckers
Originally tuned a whole step down and capo’d on the 5th fret, this can also be played in standard tuning, Capo 3.
| Chord Guide | |||
|
132 D: xx0232 |
3 4
G: 3x0003 |
13421
Bm: x24432 |
123
A: x02220 |
Intro (Instrumental Verse):
/ D - - - / G - - - / D - - - / - - - - /
/ D - - - / G - - - / D - - - / - - - - /
/ Bm - - - / G - - - / D - - - / - - - - /
/ G - - - / A - - - / D - - - / - - - - /
D G D (2)
She was fresh out of college
D G D (2)
The first one in her family to go
Bm G D (2)
and California seemed like heaven,
G A D (2)
Pulaski, Tennessee was her home
Repeat Intro
D G D (2)
She worked on losing her southern accent
D G D (2)
and turned her back on her Baptist ways
Bm G D (2)
She bought some clothes that barely covered
G A D (2)
her fair-skinned body, went to Nashville and caught a plane
Chorus 1:
G (2) D (2)
Well the clouds rushed beneath her
Bm (2) A (2)
as the LA smog filled the air
G (2) D Bm
And she smiled when the airlock opened
G A D (2)
The Pacific breeze blew through her hair
Repeat Intro
D G D (2)
She thought about the boys from Alabama
D G D (2)
Who came into town every Friday night
Bm G D (2)
and drank beer out of big glass quart bottles
G A D (2)
and left their trail of blood and tears behind
Chorus 2:
G (2) D (2)
She thought the men in California would be different
Bm (2) A (2)
She'd grown up watching them on her TV
G (2) D Bm
But the men she came to know in California
G A D (2)
Left her longing for Pulaski, Tennessee
Repeat Intro
Bridge:
Bm (2) A (2)
Good ideas always start with a full glass
G D A (2)
and just breathing here can make a girl's nose bleed
G (2) D Bm
Dreams here live and die just like a stray dog on a
G A D (2)
dirt road somewhere in Tennessee
D G D (2)
The storefronts are all filled up with eyeballs
D G D (2)
As the policemen clear out the street
Bm G D (2)
For a line of cars with their headlights burning
G A D (2)
Driving slow through Pulaski, Tennessee
Repeat Intro x2
End on D
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
