Pulaski Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays389

Pulaski by Drive-By Truckers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, Bm and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D
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Intro:
 
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  
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante