Chords for Mary Chapin Carpenter - I Am A Town (live)

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[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] I'm a town in Caroline, _ _ I'm a detour on a [F] ride
_ [C] For a phone call and a soul, _ _ I'm a blur from the [F] driver's side
[C] I'm [Am] the last [G] gasp for an hour, [C] if [F] you go twenty [G]-five
[C] I [Am] am [G] Texaco [C] and tobacco, I [Am] am dust you [C]
leave [G] behind
_ [C] I am peaches in September, _ and corn from a [F] roadside stall
_ [C] I'm the language of the natives, I'm a cadence and [F] a draw
_ [Am] I'm the pines [F] behind [C] the graveyard, and the [Am] cool [F] beneath [C] their shade
Where the [F] boys have left [C] their beer cans, I [Am] am weeds [F] between the [G] _ [C] graves
[Am] My porch is sagging lean [F] with old black men and children
My [Am] _ sleep is filled with [C] dreams I never [F] can fulfill them
I'm a town, _ _
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[G] I'm a _ _ [C] church beside the highway, _ where [G] the ditches never [F] drain
_ I'm [C] a Baptist like my dad, _ _ [G] Jesus [C] knows [F] my name
[F] I am memory _
[G] _ stillness, [C] [Am] I am [F] lonely in [C] old age
[Gm] [Am] I am not your [F] _
[C] destination, _ [Am] I am clinging [F] to [C] my _ ways
[Am] I am a town, _ [C] _ _ _ [Em] _ [G] _ _ [C] _
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[C] _ town _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ in Caroline
_ I [G] am _ billboards in [F] the fields, [C] I'm an old truck up on cinder blocks
Missing all [F] my wheels, [Am] I'm Pabst [Cm] Blue Ribbon, [G] _ American
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Southern [G] serves the South, [Am] I'm tucked [F]
behind [G] a chasin' [C] sun
[Am] On [F] the [G] rural roads, [Am] I am a town, [F] _
[C] _ _ _ I [Am] am a [F] town, _ [G] _ _ I [Am] am a town
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