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I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
He'd sit me on his lap in that big old Buick and I'd steer as we drove through town
He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
The world you may travel around, but this is your hometown
In `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 the 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
To my hometown, to my hometown, to my hometown
Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the little Texas tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to
To your hometown, to your hometown, to your hometown, to your hometown
Last night in bed me and Jane were talking about getting out
Maybe packing up our stuff here, maybe heading south
Thirty-five we got a boy of our own, last night we drove through town
I sat him up behind the wheel and said "son take a good look around"
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
The world you may travel around but this is your hometown
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
The world you may travel around but this is your hometown
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
The world you may travel around but this is your hometown
Published on Born In The USA, played in that tour and in the Amnesty, Human Touch, and Reunion tours. One performance, obviously in Freehold, N.J., on 8 November 1996 in the The Ghost Of Tom Joad tour. Has some similarities with CHEVROLET DELUXE.
These lyrics of MY HOMETOWN refer to one of the many rockabilly takes of this song Bruce recorded. Take 2 also exists.
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