Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On

I Am a Town - PCM Stereo

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 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 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 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 Hard Way
  2. He Thinks He'll Keep Her
  3. Rhythm Of The Blues
  4. I Feel Lucky
  5. The Bug
  6. Not Too Much To Ask
  7. Passionate Kisses
  8. Only a Dream
  9. I Am a Town - PCM Stereo
  10. Walking Through Fire

All Album Tracks: Come On Come On >

Altri album

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

All Albums of Mary Chapin Carpenter >

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