I Am a Town Lyrics

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INTRO:
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repeat intro as necessary
I'm a
VRS:
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town in Carolina, I'm a detour on a ride; For a
peaches in September, and corn from a roadside stall; I'm the
church beside the highway where the ditches never drain; I'm a
town in Carolina, I am billboards in the fields; I'm an
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phone call and a soda, I'm a blur from the driver's side; I'm the
language of the natives, I'm a cadence and a drawl; I'm the
Baptist like my daddy, and Jesus knows my name; I am
old truck up on cinder blocks, missing all my wheels; I am
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last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five; I am
pines behind the graveyard, and the cool beneath their shade, where the
memory and stillness, I am lonely in old age; I am
Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and "Southern Serves the South"; I am
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Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind. I am
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boys have left their beer cans; I am weeds between the graves.
to solo
not your destination; I am clinging to my ways; I am a town.
to ending
tucked behind the Jaycees sign, on the rural route.
RI:
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My porches sag and lean with old black men and children;
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Their sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfill them; I am a
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town.
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ack to beginning of verse 3...
SOLO:
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Ahhhhh..... I'm a
NIN:
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I am a town. I am a town. I am a
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town. Southbound.
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repeat these four measures several times, then end on (200000).
- Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu