My Hometown

[Verse 1] I was eight years old Running with a dime in my hand Into the bus stop To pick up a paper for my old man I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick And steer as we drove through town He'd tousle my hair and say Son, take a good look around [Chorus] This is your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown [Verse 2] In '65 tension was running high At my high school There was a lot of fights 'tween the black and white There was nothing you could do Two cars at a light on a Saturday night In the back seat was a gun Words were passed, a shotgun blast Troubled times had come [Chorus] To my hometown To my hometown To my hometown To my hometown [Verse 3] Now Main Street's whitewashed windows And vacant stores Seems like no one wants To come down here no more Thеy're closing down the textilе mill Across the railroad tracks Foreman said these jobs are going They ain't coming back [Chorus] To your hometown To your hometown To your hometown To your hometown [Verse 4] Last night me and Kate, we laid in bed Talking ‘bout getting out Packing up our bags and maybe Headin’ south I'm thirty-five, we got a boy Of our own now Last night I sat him up behind the wheel, said Son take a good look around [Chorus] This is your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown This is your hometown