Other Streets and Other Towns

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Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American folk and country music singer, songwriter and musician. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter's first album, 1987's Hometown Girl, did not produce any singles, although 1989's State of the Heart and 1990's Shooting Straight in the Dark each produced four Top 20 hits on the Billboard country singles charts. more »

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1987

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The whippoorwills were crying in the falling rain 
Far away a whistle hailed a passing train 
Out in the country summer was almost gone 
The fields were turning rusty and the hills were turning brown

Now I think of you when summer stars are on the rise 
I think of you with a bottle of wine and lazy eyes 
Playing rock-'n'-roll songs on an old guitar 
Getting drunk and sleeping out in my backyard

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Now sometimes I just lie awake and I hear the wind 
Blowing through the seasons of my heart again 
My dreams are mostly lost and found on other streets and other towns 
But, babe, you know, I still look out for you

The cars were all abandoned on the city streets 
When snow had left us stranded then we used our feet 
And wound up drinking whiskey in a crowded bar 
And now when it starts storming I wonder where you are

'Cause you said that I was crazy to believe in you 
You said to never trust a man who sings the blues 
Well, trust and that old guitar was all you'd ever need 
If you found a way to love the girl in me

[Chorus]

Other boys I knew were just like shiny dimes 
Tossed and spent, they came and went a hundred times 
Nothing was as rough on me as giving up on you 
Now it seems like every bar in town's got boys who sing the blues

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