This Shirt Lyrics - Carpenter Mary-chapin

This shirt is old and faded 

All the color's washed away 

I've had it now for more damn years 

Than I can count anyway 

I wear it beneath my jacket 

With the collar turned up high 

So old I should replace it 

But I'm not about to try 

This shirt's got silver buttons 

And a place upon the sleeve 

Where I used to set my heart up 

Right there anyone could see 

This shirt is the one I wore to every boring high school dance 

Where the boys ignored the girls 

And we all pretended to like the band 

This shirt was a pillow for my head 

On a train through Italy 

This shirt was a blanket beneath the love 

We made in Argeles 

This shirt was lost for three whole days 

In a town near Buffalo 

'Till I found the locker key 

In a downtown Trailways bus depot 

This shirt was the one I lent you 

And when you gave it back 

There was a rip inside the sleeve 

Where you rolled your cigarettes 

It was the place I put my heart 

Now look at where you put a tear 

I forgave your thoughtlessness 

But not the boy who put it there 

This shirt was the place your cat 

Decided to give birth to five 

And we stayed up all night watching 

And we wept when the last one died 

This shirt is just an old faded piece of cotton 

Shining like the memories 

Inside those silver buttons 

This shirt is a grand old relic 

With a grand old history 

I wear it now for Sunday chores 

Cleaning house and raking leaves 

I wear it beneath my jacket 

With the collar turned up high 

So old I should replace it 

But I'm not about to try