By: Jim Collins and Glenn Ashley Gorley
Just a little stretch of blacktop
Road signs full of buckshot
Most people don’t stop
Unless their lost or out of gas
Downtown there’s a courthouse
A little square you can go around
A café that’s right out
Of some movie from the past
It’s the kind of place some people make fun of
And it’s the kind of place people like me love
Chorus:
I’ll take this town
Just the way it is
With the farms and barns and the cows and the corn
That I grew up with
I’ll take this place
This way of life
I’ll sit in the shade and I’ll smile and I’ll wave
As the cars go by
You can have that city life
The bright lights
The noise and the crowd
I’ll take this town (I’ll take this town)
Yeah gimme that barbershop
Where the old mean sit and talk
About the pass tha-that boy dropped
At the game on Friday night
And you can gimme that red dirt
Stained glass from the old church
And that muddy river
Where we all got baptized
People leave and say they wanna leave the world
But I'd rather settle doen right here with a little country girl
-Lead Run-
Chorus
I’ll take this town
Just the way it is
With a dog in the yard
And a sky full of stars that I know I'd miss
I’ll take this place
This way of life
And if its up to me
It's where I'm gonna be till the day I die
You can have that city life
The bright lights
The noise and the crowd
And when you come back
You can bet that
I'll still be around
I’ll take this town
I’ll take this town
This town
And I’ll take this town
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Lyrics submitted by Jordan K.