I Know This Town

This is the second Cheryl Wheeler song I heard (on the Ben & Jerry's album). I could almost imagine seeing this smart aleck little kid. It sounded a lot like me when I was little.

Bette Midler covers this song on her album "Bette of Roses", and it includes an additional verse that was written by Cheryl at Bette's request. Cheryl has since sung the song with and without the new verse, and she likes it either way.

Juice Newton covered this song under its original title "I'm Only Walking"

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Lyrics

I Know This Town
Words And Music By:
Cheryl Wheeler

Well, I know these streets and these backyards
This barn that's fallin' down
We come to where they're building now
And ride our bikes around.
You think I'm just a little kid
Some trouble on the way
Well I knew that place before you did
Is all I've got to say.
(Chorus)
I'm only walkin' through these streets and all around
I'm only walkin' I know this town
We come home through these fields at night
About a million times
I walk the road with my eyes closed
And all the paths beside.
And I know the boy who broke this fence
I know his brothers too
And they'd never give me half a chance
If I let on to you.
(Repeat Chorus)
We dam the streams we raid the shacks
And hide in box cars on the tracks
We know these quarries in our sleep
And where they're cold and where they're deep
I'll go down to the bowling alley
Buy smokes and dentyne
I find some loose change every day
Under that coke machine
(Repeat Chorus)
You check me out when you drive by
Like there was some big deal
I know so much you'll never find
From there behind your wheel
(Repeat Chorus)
11/22/87
(P) May 27, 2003
Penrod And Higgins Music / Amachrist Music
ACF Music Group
International Copyright Reserved

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Recordings

The song I Know This Town appears on the following 4 albums:

Bette of Roses: by Midler, Bette
Ben & Jerry's Newport Folk Festival, Vol. 2: by Various
Circles & Arrows: by Wheeler, Cheryl
Just Be Glad: by Hall, Patty