I say how could this be
left her back in Tennesse
now there's a thousand miles between

I'm going out of 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 nothing more in her life
Than to see her name in lights

So I came along for the ride
But there was just no end
To the 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

North Dakota boy in Tennessee

That singin town had got the best of me
Oh yeah
and I lost my love to the dream

Looking back I lost a part of me
And so I said
You can drag me back to Nashville

But you'll drag me back to Nashville dead

I say how could this be

North Dakota boy in Tennessee
That singin town had got the best of me
Oh yeah

and 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 to Nashville dead


Oh you can drag me back to Nashville
But you'll drag me back to Nashville dead
North Dakota boy in Tennessee

I say how could this be
North Dakota boy in Tennessee