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She was fresh out of college
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The first one in her family to go
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and California seemed like heaven,
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Pulaski, Tennessee was her home
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She worked on losing her southern accent
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and turned her back on her Baptist ways
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She bought some clothes that barely
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covered her fair skinned body,
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Went to Nashville and caught a plane
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Well the clouds rushed beneath her
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as the LA smog filled the air
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And she smiled when the airlock opened
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The Pacific breeze blew through her hair
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She thought about the boys from Alabama
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Who came into town every Friday night
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and drank beer out of big glass quart bottles
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and left their trail of blood and tears behind
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She thought the men in California would be different
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She'd grown up watching them on her TV
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But the men she came to know in California
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Left her longing for Pulaski, Tennessee
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Good ideas always start with a full glass
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and just breathing here can make a girl's nose bleed
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Dreams here live and die just like a stray dog on a
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dirt road somewhere in Tennessee
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The storefronts all filled up with eyeballs
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As the policemen clear out the street
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For a line of cars with their headlights burning
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Driving slow through Pulaski, Tennessee
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