I Am a Town Chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ I'm [C] a town in _ Carolina, _ I'm a detour on a [F] ride
_ [G] For [C] a phone call and a soda, _ I'm a blur from the [F] driver's side
[Am] I'm the last [D] gasp for an hour, _ if you're going 25
_ _ I am Texaco and tobacco, [C] _ [F] I am dust [D] you leave behind
_ [C] I am peaches in September, _ [G] and corn from a [F] roadside stall
[C] I'm the language of the natives, _ [G] I'm a cadence [F] and a draw
I'm [Am] the pines [F] behind [G] the graveyard, _ [Am] and the cool [C] beneath [G] their shade
Where [Am] the boys [F] have left [G] their beer cans, [Am] I am [F] weeds between [G] the graves
My [Am] _
[A] porch is [Am] saggingly with [F]
old black men and children
My [Am] _
[C] sleep is filled with dreams I [F] never can fulfill there
I am a town, _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] I'm a church beside the highway
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Where the ditches never [F] drain
_ _ [C] I'm a Baptist like my daddy, _ [Gm]
and Jesus [F] knows my name
[Am] I am [F] memory [G] and stillness, [Am] I am [F] lonely in [G] old age
[Am] I am not [F] your _ [G] destination, [C] _ [Am] I am clinging [F] to [G] my ways
I [Am] am [C] a town, _ _ _ _ _
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a town in Carolina
_ _ [G] I am _ [F] billboards in the fields
[C] I'm an old truck up on cinder [G] blocks, missing _ [F] all my wheels
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I'm PAP's [F] blue ribbon, [G] _ American Air
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_ [F] Southern [D] serves the sun
[Am] I am tucked [F] behind [G] a JC _ sign on the rural route
[F] I am a town, [D] _ _ _ I [Am] am [C] a town, _ [G] _ _ I [F]
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[C] southbound
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