Chords for I am a Town - Mary Chapin Carpenter @ Wolf Trap

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