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I was eight years old and running with a diamond

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Bus stop to pay up a paper for mine

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Sat on his lap in that big old Buick

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Steer as we drove through town

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Tassel my hair, say something, good looker

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This is your hometown, this is your hometown, this is your hometown

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In 65, tension was running high at my school

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There was a lot of fights between the black and white

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There was nothing you could do

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Cars hit a light on a Saturday night

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Backseat, there was a gun

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Words are past, shotgun blast

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Troubled times, they've come

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A mile, a mile

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Our main street's whitewashed windows

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And vacant stores

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Seems like there ain't nobody

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Won't took them down here no more

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They're closing down

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Textile mills

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Across the railroad tracks

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Woman says these jobs

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Are going boys

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And they ain't coming back

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To your hometown

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To your own

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To your own town

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To your own

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I sat him up behind the wheel and said, son, take a good look around. This is your hometown.