Guitar town (video)

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1. Hey, pretty baby, are you ready for me,

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it's your good rockin' daddy down from Tennessee.

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I'm just out of Austin bound for San Antone

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with the radio blastin' and the bird dog on.

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There's a speed trap up ahead in Selma Town,

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but no local yokel gonna shut me down,

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'cause me and my boys got this rig unwound,

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and we've come a thousand miles from a Guitar Town.

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2. Nothin' ever happened 'round my hometown,

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and I ain't the kind to just hang around.

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But I heard someone callin' my name one day,

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and I followed that voice down the lost highway.

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Everybody told me you can't get far

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on thirty-seven dollars and a jap guitar.

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Now I'm smokin' into Texas with the hammer down,

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and a rockin' little combo from the Guitar Town.

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Hey, pretty baby, don't you know it ain't my fault,

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I love to hear the steel belts hummin' on the asphalt.

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Wake up in the middle of the night in a truck stop,

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stumble in the restaurant wonderin' why I don't stop.

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3. Well, I gotta keep rockin' why I still can,

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I gotta two pack habit and a motel tan.

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But when my boots hit the boards I'm a brand new man,

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with my back to the riser I make my stand.

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Hey, pretty baby, won't you hold me tight ?

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We're loadin' up and rollin' out of here tonight.

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One of these days I'm gonna settle down,

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and take you back with me to the Guitar Town.

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(Steve Earle)