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I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand 
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Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man   
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I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town 
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He'd tousle my hair and  he'd say son take a good look around 
  

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This is your hometown, your home town 
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This is your hometown, your home town, this is your home town 
  

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In 65   tension was running high at my high school 
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There was a lot of fights between the black and white / there was nothing you could do 
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Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat was a gun 
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Words were passed a shotgun blast / troubled times had come   


G                      C    G    D 
This is your hometown, your home town 
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This is your hometown, your home town, this is your home town 
  

Em                                           G 
Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores 
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Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more 
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They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks 
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Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to 

  
G                      C    G    D 
This is your hometown, your home town 
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This is your hometown, your home town, this is your home town 


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Last night me and Kate we laid in bed 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 
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Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around 


G                      C    G    D 
This is your hometown, your home town 
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This is your hometown, your home town, this is your home town