Karaoke Track: My Hometown by Bruce Springsteen (Sunfly)

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I was eight years old

and running with
a dime in my hand

To the bus stop to pick

up a paper
for my old man

I&#39;d sit on his lap
in that big old Buick

and steer as we
drove through town

He&#39;d tousle my hair

and say son take
a good look around

This is your hometown

In &#39;65 tension was

running high
at my high school

There was a lot of
fights between

the black and white
there was nothing
you could do

Two cars at a light
on a Saturday night

in the back seat
there was a gun

Words were passed
in a shotgun blast

troubled times
had come
to my hometown

My hometown

To my hometown

Now Main Street&#39;s

whitewashed windows
and vacant stores

Seems like there
ain&#39;t nobody

wants to come
down here no more

They&#39;re closing down
the textile mill

across the railroad
tracks

Foreman says these iobs
are going boys

and they ain&#39;t
coming back
to your hometown

To your hometown

Your hometown

Last night me and Kate

we laid in bed
talking about getting out

Packing up

our bags and maybe
heading south

I&#39;m thirty-five

we got a boy
of our own now

Last night I sat him up
behind the wheel

and said son take
a good look around

This is your hometown

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