Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter

I Am a Town

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 back 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
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

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



Credits
Writer(s): Mary Carpenter
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Other Album Tracks

  1. The Long Way Home
  2. Shut Up and Kiss Me
  3. I Take My Chances
  4. Almost Home
  5. Halley Came to Jackson
  6. I Am a Town
  7. Quittin' Time
  8. Down At the Twist and Shout
  9. Only a Dream
  10. Late for Your Life

All Album Tracks: The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter >

Altri album

  1. Looking For The Thread
  2. One Night Lonely (Live)
  3. Leave A Mark (Live 1995)
  4. The Dirt And The Stars (Bonus Tracks)
  5. The Dirt And The Stars
  6. American Stooge
  7. Secret Keepers
  8. Between The Dirt And The Stars
  9. Our Man Walter Cronkite
  10. Sometimes Just the Sky

All Albums of Mary Chapin Carpenter >

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