Lyrics

[Verse 1] Just across the highway, there's the army store And every time I see it I remember what it's for My brother signed up so he could make his stink They send him to Iraq, it's just a year and a day The showdown, he was shot from the rear They make those bullets sixteen miles from here [Chorus] All he ever wanted was his own piece of ground And now it's three feet wide, six feet down All he ever wanted was his own piece of ground And I ain't nеver gonna leave my homеtown [Verse 2] Church window caught in the corner of my eye Jacob's ladder shining out of the sky Well I'm dreaming of Suzy with the yellow hair When I was small she used to live 'round here River Valley Baptist on White Elm Road I kissed her in the choir when she was twelve years old [Chorus] Suzy went to school but I just sorta hung around She came back and burned the damn church down Suzy went to school but I just sorta hung around And I ain't never gonna leave my hometown [Bridge] Well, there's an Amoco pipeline, it cuts through the town Feed the dusty mosquitos, suck the oil from the ground I watch the sun go down through a hole in the pine That they left when they laid the power line Well that's a V8 boy, you can tell by the sound But I ain't never gonna leave my hometown [Verse 3] Sunday, go to meetin', 'bout half past ten I put on my best again Got a half tank of gas, a beer in a can Meet in back of Johnson's land And we'll try to get home by breakfast time Put the whites in the wash, get 'em out on the line [Chorus] Before the stain sets, you know the red turns to brown The rifle's in the rack before I hit town Before the stain sets, you know the red turns to brown And I ain't never gonna leave my hometown [Bridge] Well, there's an Amoco pipeline, it cuts through the town Feed the crusty mosquitos, suck the blood from the ground I watch the sun go down through a hole in the pine That they left when they laid the power line Well that's a twelve gauge [?], you tell by the sound But I ain't never gonna leave my hometown