My Hometown-Graham Blvd

[ti:My Hometown] [ar:Graham Blvd.] [al:Top of the Charts 1986] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Hometown - Graham Blvd. [00:16.64]I was eight years old [00:18.42]And running with a dime in my hand [00:23.73] [00:24.77]Into the bus stop to pick up [00:26.83]A paper for my old man [00:32.29] [00:33.12]I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick [00:36.94]And steer as we drove through town [00:39.88] [00:41.38]He'd tousle my hair and say son [00:44.32]Take a good look around [00:48.00] [00:49.37]This is your hometown [00:51.15] [00:53.28]This is your hometown [00:56.74] [00:57.88]This is your hometown [00:59.46] [01:01.59]This is your hometown [01:05.24] [01:10.00]In '65 tension was running high [01:14.00]At my high school [01:17.15] [01:17.70]There was a lot of [01:19.04]Fights between the black and white [01:21.98]There was nothing you could do [01:24.99] [01:26.40]Two cars at a light [01:28.11]On a Saturday night in the back [01:31.16]Seat there was a gun [01:33.24] [01:34.58]Words were passed in a shotgun blast [01:38.63]Troubled times [01:39.85]Had come to my hometown [01:44.64] [01:47.09]My hometown [01:50.38] [01:51.46]My hometown [01:52.84] [01:55.06]My hometown [01:58.88] [02:03.27]Now Main Street's [02:04.20]Whitewashed windows and vacant stores [02:09.46] [02:11.34]Seems like there ain't nobody [02:14.23] [02:15.00]Wants to come down here no more [02:17.63] [02:19.57]They're closing down the textile [02:22.25]Mill across the railroad tracks [02:26.34] [02:27.54]Foreman says these jobs [02:29.83]Are going boys and they [02:33.46]Ain't coming back to your hometown [02:38.19] [02:40.31]Your hometown [02:43.43] [02:44.60]Your hometown [02:46.15] [02:48.46]Your hometown [02:51.57] [02:56.69]Last night me and Kate we laid in bed [03:00.78]Talking about getting out [03:03.32] [03:05.09]Packing up our bags maybe heading south [03:12.52] [03:13.17]I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now [03:20.66]Last night I sat him up behind the wheel [03:25.10]And said son take a good look around [03:28.43] [03:31.40]This is your hometown