I Am A Town Lyrics - Come On Come On - Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

For aphone 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 twenty-five 

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

I am peaches in September, and corn from a roadside stall 

I'm thelanguage 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 

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

I am a town. 

I am a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain 

I'm aBaptist like my daddy, and 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. 

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

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

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

I am tucked behind the Jaycees sign, on the rural route 

I am a town 

I am a town 

I am a town 

Southbound. 

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