I Am A Town

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Fadd9 G7sus G7sus G7sus Fadd9 G7sus G7sus G7sus                              /          I’m town in Carolina I’m detour on ride                                   /                             Fadd9    G7sus                 Fadd9     G7sus I’m the last gas for an hour if you’re going twenty-five.      Fadd9  G7sus             Fadd9    G7sus 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.         Fadd9   G7sus                      Fadd9  G7sus I’m the pines behind the graveyard and the cool beneath their shade           Fadd9     G7sus                      Fadd9   G7sus 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.        Fadd9  G7sus G7sus G7sus   Fadd9 G7sus G7sus G7sus 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.      Fadd9  G7sus               Fadd9  G7sus I am memory and stillness I am lonely in old age;      Fadd9    G7sus             Fadd9    G7sus I am not your destination I am clinging to my ways. I am a town.                     Fadd9 G7sus G7sus G7sus Fadd9 G7sus G7sus G7sus 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.      Fadd9      G7sus                 Fadd9     G7sus I am Pabst Blue Ribbon American and "Southern Serves the South".      Fadd9    G7sus                 Fadd9  G7sus I am tucked behind the Jaycees sign on the rural route.        Fadd9 G7sus I am a town.        Fadd9 G7sus I am a town.        Fadd9 G7sus I am a town.      Fadd9 G7sus Fadd9 G7sus C Southbound.

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