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