I'll Sing About Mine

Josh Abbott Band - I'll Sing About Mine

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In my hometown

Population just a few thousand

All of them kids at the drive-in

After Friday nights football game

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That's the same place

Where mom and dad went on their first date

Had the same burger I just ate

Man, some things never change

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That's what made me who I am today

Gave me a million songs to play

And when the radio's on I just don't understand

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Because tractors ain't ***y and workin' is hard

For small town people like me

And the radio's full of rich folks singin'

'Bout places they've never seen

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Now I ain't saying that their lives ain't hard,

I'd love to hear about it sometime

But let them sing about their own life

And I'll sing about mine

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I'm not complaining

Running my mouth like an old man

Talking 'bout a world that's changing

And how it's given up on me

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I'm just saying down at Nick's on the weekend

The small town anthems they're singing

Don't sound like what you see

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When you talk about the dairy queen,

Pick up trucks and Springsteen

Make the place I love sound like a bad cartoon

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Because tractors ain't ***y and workin' is hard

For small town people like me

And the radio's full of rich folks singing

'Bout the places they've never seen

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Now I ain't saying that their lives ain't hard,

I'd love to hear about it sometime

But let them sing about their own life

And I'll sing about mine

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And if you want a song about

A place like my hometown

Take a weekend and come on down

It won't take long to see

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'Cause tractors ain't ***y and workin' is hard

For small town people like me

And the radio's full of rich folks singing

'Bout places they've never seen

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Now I ain't saying that their lives ain't hard,

I'd love to hear about it sometime

But let them sing about their own life

And I'll sing about mine

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They can sing about their own life,

I'll sing about mine