I'll Sing About Mine - Josh Abbott Band, Josh Abbot Band

In my hometown

Population just a few thousand

All of them kids at the drive-in

After Friday nights football game

That’s the same place

Where mom and dad went on their first date

Had the same burger I just ate

Man, some things never change

That’s what made me who I am today

Gave me a million songs to play

And when the radio’s on I just don’t understand

Because tractors ain’t sexy and workin' is hard

For small town people like me

And the radio’s full of rich folks singin'

‘Bout places they’ve never seen

Now I ain’t saying that their lives ain’t hard,

I’d love to hear about it sometime

But let them sing about their own life

And I’ll sing about mine

I’m not complaining

Running my mouth like an old man

Talking ‘bout a world that’s changing

And how it’s given up on me

I’m just saying down at Nick’s on the weekend

The small town anthems they’re singing

Don’t sound like what you see

When you talk about the dairy queen,

Pick up trucks and Springsteen

Make the place I love sound like a bad cartoon

Because tractors ain’t sexy and workin' is hard

For small town people like me

And the radio’s full of rich folks singing

‘Bout the places they’ve never seen

Now I ain’t saying that their lives ain’t hard,

I’d love to hear about it sometime

But let them sing about their own life

And I’ll sing about mine

And if you want a song about

A place like my hometown

Take a weekend and come on down

It won’t take long to see

‘Cause tractors ain’t sexy and workin' is hard

For small town people like me

And the radio’s full of rich folks singing

‘Bout places they’ve never seen

Now I ain’t saying that their lives ain’t hard,

I’d love to hear about it sometime

But let them sing about their own life

And I’ll sing about mine

They can sing about their own life,

I’ll sing about mine