Pulaski chords by Mike Cooley

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She was

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She French out of college,
first one in her family to go
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In California seemed like heaven,
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but Alaska,
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Tennessee was her home
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She worked on losing
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Turned her back on her Baptist ways
She bought some clothes
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that barely covered her
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fair -skinned body
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Went to Nashville
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and caught a plane
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Where the clouds, rushed beneath her
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The yelling smiled through the air
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And she smiled when
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the airlock opened
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And the Pacific breeze blew through
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her hair
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She thought about the boys from Alabama
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came into town every Friday night
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and drank beer out of great big
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glass quart bottles
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and left their trail of
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blood and tears behind
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she thought the man in Califor
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nia would be different
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she'd grown up watching them on her TV
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but the man she came
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to know in California,
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left her longing for Nassau,
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Tennessee.
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Good ideas always start with a full glass,
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and just breathing here
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can make a girl's nose bleed.
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Dreams here live and  die
just like a stray dog.
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On  a dirt road some
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where in Tennessee
The storefronts are all filled up with eyeball
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As the policemen clear out the street
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For a line of cars with their
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headlights burning
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Drivin' slow through Alaska,
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Tennessee
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Yeah! Awesome.