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I say how could this be

I left her back in Tennessee

And there's a thousand miles between

And I'm goin' outta my head

But I can't take back the words I said

Just to fill her empty bed

Said you can drag me back to Nashville

But you'll drag me back to Nashville dead

She wanted nothin' more in her life

Than to see her name in lights

So I came along for the ride

But there was just no end

Smokey bars and unpaid rent

Day job blues held by a thread

Oh you can drag me back to Nashville

But you'll drag me back to Nashville dead

Chorus

North Dakota boy in Tennessee

That singin' town it got the best of me, oh ya

Well I lost my love to the dream

Lookin' back I lost a part of me, and so I said

You can drag me back to Nashville

But you'll drag me back ot Nashville dead

Instrumental break

I say how could this be

Chorus

Oh you can drag me back to Nashville

But you'll drag me back to Nashville dead

North Dakota boy in Tennesse

I say how could this be

(Repeat and Fade out)