• Song:

    I Am A Town

  • Artist:

    Mary Chapin Carpenter

  • Album:

    Shut Up and Kiss Me

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Fadd9 G7sus G7sus G7sus

      C (x32010@1)                     G/F (120003@1)       FI'm (133211@1)a town in Carolina, I'm a detour on a ride 
      C (x32010@1)                          G/F (120003@1)                  FFor (133211@1)a phone call and a soda, I'm a blur from the driver's side. 
        Fadd9 (135211@1)  G7sus (3x301x@1)               Fadd9 (135211@1)   G7susI'm (3x301x@1)the last gas for an hour if you're going twenty-five. 
     Fadd9 (135211@1)G7sus (3x301x@1)           Fadd9 (135211@1)  G7susI (3x301x@1)am Texaco and tobacco, I am dust you leave behind.

     C (x32010@1)                       G/F (120003@1)                FI (133211@1)am peaches in September, and corn from a roadside stall. 
        C (x32010@1)                            G/F (120003@1)         FI'm (133211@1)the language of the natives, I'm a cadence and a drawl. 
        Fadd9 (135211@1) G7sus (3x301x@1)                    Fadd9 (135211@1)G7susI'm (3x301x@1)the pines behind the graveyard and the cool beneath their shade,
          Fadd9 (135211@1)   G7sus (3x301x@1)                    Fadd9 (135211@1) G7suswhere (3x301x@1)the boys have left their beer cans, I am weeds between the graves.


Am (x02210@1)                                   FMy (133211@1)porches sag and lean with old black men and children.
Am (x02210@1)                                    F (133211@1)My sleep is filled with dreams, I never can fulfill them. 
       Fadd9  G7sus G7sus G7sus   Fadd9 G7sus G7sus G7sus
I am a town.


      C (x32010@1)                                 G/F (120003@1)         FI'm (133211@1)a church beside the highway where the ditches never drain. 
      C (x32010@1)                    G/F (120003@1)          FI'm (133211@1)a Baptist like my daddy, Jesus knows my name. 
     Fadd9 (135211@1)G7sus (3x301x@1)             Fadd9 (135211@1)G7susI (3x301x@1)am memory and stillness, I am lonely in old age;
     Fadd9 (135211@1)  G7sus (3x301x@1)           Fadd9 (135211@1)  G7susI (3x301x@1)am not your destination, I am clinging to my ways. 
       Am (x02210@1)  G (320003@1)F (133211@1)F (133211@1)Am (x02210@1)G (320003@1)F (133211@1)FI (133211@1)am a town.

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Fadd9 G7sus G7sus G7sus

      C (x32010@1)                    G/F (120003@1)             FI'm (133211@1)a town in Carolina, I am billboards in the fields. 
       C (x32010@1)                            G/F (120003@1)          FI'm (133211@1)an old truck up on cinder blocks, missing all my wheels. 
     Fadd9 (135211@1)    G7sus (3x301x@1)               Fadd9 (135211@1)   G7susI (3x301x@1)am Pabst Blue Ribbon, American, and "Southern Serves the South". 
     Fadd9 (135211@1)  G7sus (3x301x@1)               Fadd9 (135211@1)G7susI (3x301x@1)am tucked behind the Jaycees sign on the rural route. 
       Fadd9 (135211@1)name="chord_3x301x@1">G7sus
I am a town.
       Fadd9 (135211@1)name="chord_3x301x@1">G7sus
I am a town.
       Fadd9 (135211@1)name="chord_3x301x@1">G7sus 
I am a town.
     Fadd9 G7sus Fadd9 G7sus C
Southbound.
                                        
                                            
                                            
                                        
                                                                
                        
                        
                        
                                                    
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