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