My Home Town-American Boys

[ti:My Home Town] [ar:American Boys] [al:Love Songs 70 80] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Home Town (Shi Da Jie) - American Boys [00:16.35]I was eight years old [00:18.12]And running with a dime in my hand [00:23.04] [00:24.49]Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man [00:30.85] [00:32.34]I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick [00:36.44]And steer as we drove through town [00:39.34] [00:40.75]He'd tousle my hair and say son [00:43.68]Take a good look around this is your hometown [00:50.62] [00:52.64]This is your hometown [00:55.99] [00:57.00]This is your hometown [00:58.71] [01:00.82]This is your hometown [01:04.24] [01:09.41]In '65 tension was running high at my high school [01:16.25] [01:17.40]There was a lot of fights between the black and white [01:21.19]There was nothing you could do [01:24.32] [01:25.66]Two cars at a light on a Saturday night [01:29.42]In the back seat there was a gun [01:32.66] [01:33.77]Words were passed in a shotgun blast [01:37.41]Troubled times had come to my hometown [01:43.96] [01:46.30]My hometown [01:48.92] [01:50.18]My hometown [01:51.58] [01:54.14]My hometown [01:56.81] [02:02.38]Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores [02:08.69] [02:10.30]Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more [02:16.58] [02:18.79]They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks [02:24.89] [02:26.71]Foreman says these jobs are going boys [02:30.65]And they ain't coming back to your hometown [02:36.47] [02:39.03]Your hometown [02:41.95] [02:43.28]Your hometown [02:45.15] [02:47.19]Your hometown [02:50.07] [02:55.60]Last night me and Kate we laid in bed [02:59.36]Talking about getting out [03:02.68] [03:03.54]Packing up our bags maybe heading south [03:10.57] [03:11.70]I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now [03:18.53] [03:19.80]Last night I sat him up behind the wheel [03:23.38]And said son take a good look around [03:26.77] [03:30.07]This is your hometown