My Hometown

Accordi My Hometown

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I was eight years old
                   
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And running with a dime in my hand
              
To the bus stop to pick
               
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Up a paper for my old man
    
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I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick
     
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And steer as we drove through town

He'd tousle my hair
                      
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And say, "son, take a good look around"
        
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This is your hometown
        
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This is your hometown

This is your hometown
        
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This is your hometown

    
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In '65 tension was running high
   
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At my high school

There was a lot of fights
   
Between the black and white
          
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There was nothing you could do
    
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Two cars at a light on a Saturday night
       
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In the back seat there was a gun

Words were passed in a shotgun blast 
         
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Troubled times had come
   
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To my hometown
   
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To my hometown

To my hometown
   
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To my hometown

    
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Now Main Street's whitewashed windows
    
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And vacant stores
      
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Seems like there ain't nobody
              
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Wants to come down here no more
        
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They're closing down the textile mill
       
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Across the railroad tracks
        
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Foreman says, "these jobs are going, boys
    
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And they ain't coming back

   
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To your hometown
   
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To your hometown

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Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
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Talking about getting out
                           
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Packing up our bags, maybe heading south
    
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I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now
                       
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel
           
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And said, "son, take a good look around
        
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This is your hometown"

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