Carpenter Mary-chapin I Am A Town Lyrics

I Am A Town Lyrics

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 black 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, 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 cinderblocks, missing all my wheels

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

 I am tucked behind a Jaycees sign on the rural route

 I am a town

 I am a town

 I am a town

 Southbound