Story Behind The Song

Based on personal experience - having grown up in a small West Texas town, leaving to see the rest of the world and returning home realizing that this was where I wanted to spend a lifetime.

Song Description

Reflections of growing up in a small town, and the feelings of having your roots set deep in a particular community and the definate sense of home

Lyrics

American One-Horse Town
(h. childs)

Lived seventeen years in this old town
Watched the sun come up
Watched the sun go down
Seen everything change and everything stay the same
Been up the highway once or twice
Moved off once on my old man?s advice but, the big town ? man, it?s a whole new game

People say when they leave here they never come back
The only train that runs out of here is on a one way track

Chorus:
This is where they?ll bury me ? six blocks down on Johnson Street
Yeah, that?s where they?ll put me in the ground
This is where I?ll raise my kids
Just the way my old man did
But, for the grace of God, live I in this American one-horse town

Only seven-thousand people in this rat race
Rush hour here has a whole new face
We get a five car traffic jam when the light goes out on Main
Friday nights and high-school ball
It?s a way of life when summer fades to fall
Win or lose ?round here ain?t just a game

Hangin? out ? hood of my car at the Dairy Queen
Burning Marlboro Lights
Doing my best James Dean