Mary Chapin Carpenter – I Am A Town

Mary Chapin Carpenter – I Am A Town Lyrics

Artist: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Song: 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 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
My 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 a Jaycees sign, on the rural route
I am a town
I am a town
I am a town

Southbound.
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From the album:
The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter
Release Year: 2003