Drive-By Truckers - Pulaski Lyrics
She was fresh out of college
The first one in her family to go
and California seemed like heaven,
Pulaski, Tennessee was her home
She worked on losing her southern accent
She bought some clothes that barely covered her fair skinned body,
Went to Nashville and caught a plane
The clouds rushed beneath her as the LA smog filled the air
She smiled when the airlock opened
and the Pacific breeze blew through her hair
She thought about the boys from Alabama
Who came into town every Friday night
and drank beer out of big glass quart bottles
and left their trail of blood and tears behind
She thought the men from California would be different
But the men she came to know in California
Left her longing for Pulaski, Tennessee
Good ideas always start with a full glass
and just breathing here can make a girl's nose bleed
Dreams here live and die just like a stray dog on a dirt road somewhere in Tennessee
The storefronts all filled up with eyeballs
As the policemen clear out the street
For a line of cars with their headlights burning
Driving slow through Pulaski, Tennessee
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Drive-By Truckers Pulaski Comments
I kinda wondered if maybe the plane didn't crash on the way to California...
it clearly didn't. Otherwise she wouldn't come to know men in California
Happy Pulaski Day!! #Casimer Pulaski
Yes. The "line of cars with their head lights burning" refers to a funeral procession. My guess is that one of the boys who "left her longing for pulaski, tn" has to do with her death.
does she die at the end? is it a funeral he's describing in the last couple lines?
Another great Cooley song. Very Merle Haggard-like.
Two Gibson J200's. Beautiful instraments, beautiful song, artistry lives!
Man can they write some of the most kick ass rock songs & then such beautiful tunes like this. Like Lennon meeting McCartney boy am I glad these 2 geniuses found each other
That Gibson is sick
@CadillacNate Yea, the remaining 4:28 was just terrible. Give me a break!
Patterson and Cooley are too cool! Awesome video!
i like very much
Ed sheeran , he's good
Good stuff! Hope to get to see ya Friday Night...
Very nice, I like it.