Tiny Town

(Keith Stegall)

I grew up in a tiny town

Sidewalks rolled up

When the sun went down

And we played in the street

Til my mom said come eat

In that tiny town

My dad ran station by the railroad track

Half his life he spent on his back

Underneath a car

Lord he worked so hard

In that tiny town

They say home is where your heart is

And I guess it’s true

And they say you can’t go back but

I close my eyes

And I’m driving through

My mom sold

Avon is the neighborhood

And I’d wait in the car hoping she’d done good

So I’d have a dime to spend on the ice cream man

In that tiny town

Got the car when

I was just fifteen

Five dollars bought a lot of gasoline

For the drive in picture show

Where we used to go

In that tiny town

They say home is where your heart is

And I guess it’s true

And they say you can’t go back but

I close my eyes

And I’m driving through

Now the years they fly by oh so fast

So much of life we lose to the past

But I’m proud to say that

I was raised

In a tiny town

They say home is where your heart is

And I guess it’s true

And they say you can’t go back but

I close my eyes

And I’m driving through

I grew up in a tiny town

Sidewalks rolled up

When the sun went down

And we played in the street

Til my mom said come eat

In that tiny town