Our Town
Iris Dement

And you know the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

Up the street beside that red neon light,
That's where I met my baby on one hot summer night.
He was the tender and I ordered a beer,
It's been forty years and I'm still sitting here.

But you know the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

It's here I had my babies and I had my first kiss.
I've walked down Main Street in the cold morning mist.
Over there is where I bought my first car.
It turned over once but then it never went far.

And I can see the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

I buried my Mama and I buried my Pa.
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall.
I bring them flowers about every day,
but I just gotta cry when I think what they'd say.

If they could see how the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

Now I sit on the porch and watch the lightning-bugs fly.
But I can't see too good, I got tears in my eyes.
I'm leaving tomorrow but I don't wanna go.
I love you, my town, you'll always live in my soul.

But I can see the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on, I gotta kiss you goodbye,
But I'll hold to my lover,
'Cause my heart's 'bout to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to my town, to my town.
I can see the sun has gone down on my town, on my town,
Goodnight.
Goodnight.


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  (We\   (We"re Not) The Jet Set   Acres Of Corn   After You're Gone   After You're Gone   All Is Sold   And This You Call Work   Banks Of Marble   Before the Colors Fade   Big City   Blessed Assurance   Break My Mind   Broad Gold   Calling For You   Childhood Memories   City Of New Orleans   Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day   Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day   Fifty Miles of Elbow Room   Fill My Way With Love   Folsom Prison Blues   From An Airplane   From The Oriental Notebook   Go On Ahead and Go Home   God May Forgive You (But I Won't)   God May Forgive You (But I Won't)   God Walks The Dark Hills   Goodbye Little Darling   He Reached Down   Heart's Highway   Hide Thou Me   Higher Ground   Hobo BIll's Last Ride   Hobo Bill's Last Ride   Hotter Than Mojave in My Heart   I Don't Want to Get Adjusted   I Don't Want To Get Adjusted To This World   I Don't Want To Get Adjusted To This World   I Miss A Lot Of Trains   I Never Shall Forget the Day   I Still Miss Someone   I'll Take My Sorrow Straight   I'm Out To Try My Hand At Love Again   I'm Still In Love With You   I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart   I'll Take My Sorrow Straight   I'm Out To Try My Hand At Love Again   I'm Still In Love With You   I've Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart   If That Ain't Love   In Spite Of Ourselves   Infamous Angel   It's Not With A Lover's Lyre \/ The Muse   Jambalaya   Keep Me God   Keep On The Sunny Side   Last Toast   Leaning on the Everlasting Arms   Let the Mystery Be   Let's Invite Them Over   Let's Invite Them Over   Letter to Mom   Like A Whte Stone   Listening To Singing   Livin' On the Inside   Living On The Inside   Lot's Wife   Love Abides   Makin' My Way Back Home   Mama Was Always Tellin' Her Truth   Mama's Opry   Mama's Opry   Mexican Home   Mom And Dad's Waltz   Mom And Dad's Waltz   Mornin' Glory   Morning Glory   My Life   No Time To Cry   Nobody Gonna Love On Me No More   Not With Deserters   Oh How Good   On The Wings Of A Dove   Out Of the Fire   Over The Garden Wall   Pack Up Your Sorrows   Prayer   Pretty Saro   Quality Time   Reject The Burden   Sing The Delta   Song About Songs   Sweet Forgiveness   Sweet Hour of Prayer   Sweet Is The Melody   That Glad Reunion   That Glad Reunion Day   That's The Way Love Goes   That's The Way Love Goes   The Cherry Tree Carol   The Heart Tells The Story   The Kingdom Has Already Come   The Night I Learned How Not To Pray   The Old Gospel Ship   The Old Rugged Cross   The Shores Of Jordan   The Souls Of All My Dears   The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home   The Unclouded Day   The Way I Should   There's a Wall in Washington   There's a Whole Lotta Heaven   There's A Wall In Washington   These Hills   This Kind of Happy   To My Poems   Trouble   Troublesome Waters   Upon The Hard Crest   Walkin' Home   Walkin' Home   Wasteland of the Free   Wayfarin' Stranger   Wayfarin' Stranger   We Could   Wheels Of Love   When I Was Yours   When Love Was Young   When MY Mornin' Comes Around   When My Mornin' Comes Around   Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies   Whispering Pines   Wildwood Flower   You've Done Nothing Wrong   You've Done Nothing Wrong

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