I Am A Town Lyrics - Singles - Carpenter Mary-chapin

I'm a town in Carolina, I'm a detour on a ride 

For a phone call and a soda, I'm a blur from the driver's side 

I'm the last gas for an hour, if you're going 25 

I am Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind 

I am peaches in September and corn from a roadside stall 

I'm the language of the natives, I'm a cadence and a drawl 

I'm the pines behind the graveyard and the cool beneath their shade 

Where the boys have left their beer cans, I am weeds between the graves 

My porches sag and lean with old black men and children 

My sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfill them 

I am a town 

I'm a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain 

I'm a Baptist like my daddy, Jesus knows my name 

I am memory and stillness, I am lonely in old age 

I am not your destination, I am clinging to my ways 

I am a town 

I'm a town in Carolina, I am billboards in the fields 

I'm an old truck up on cinderblocks, missing all my wheels 

I am Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and "Southern Serves the South" 

I am tucked behind a Jaycees sign on the rural route 

I am a town 

I am a town 

I am a town 

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