Old Town Road - DeChant Copyright 2005

I took a walk through my town
Passed the church my old school
Fields of my grandfather
Felt the steel of the farming tool

I thought about living in the shadows
Of the trees that cool the air
There’s a comfort in knowing every street sign
There’s a life in the places there

Oh Old Town Road
Oh Old Town Road
Oh Old Town Road
Oh Old Town Road

I took a walk through my town
Where Elizabeth and William met
Called her names from the porch swing
And with confidence turned her head
I thought about living like a lover
About the words my grandma said
Saw her blush when she was eighty
Saw the girl who loved him yet

Oh Old Town Road
Oh Old Town Road
Oh Old Town Road
Oh Old Town Road

The walls of an old town move in and out
They’ll take your life or they’ll let you shout
Run away travel back
Search to find the things I lack

I took a walk through my town
Hung a right to head toward home
My mind went one step further
To the end of the dead end road
I thought about living in the shadows
Between the boy and the woman there
When life was a baseball diamond
And the game was truth or dare

Oh Old Town Road
Oh Old Town Road
Oh Old Town Road
Oh Old Town Road

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