I Know This Town - Bette Midler

I know these streets and these backyards

This barn that’s falling down

We come to where they’re building now

And ride our bikes around

You think I’m just a little kid

Some troubles on the way

But I knew this place before you did

Is all I’ve got to say

I’m only walking

Through these streets and all around

I’m only walking

I know this town

We come home through these fields at night

About a million times

I’d walk the road with my eyes closed

And all the paths besdies

And I know the boy who broke this fence

And I know his brother, too

And they’s never give me half a chance

If I let on to you

I’m only walking

Through these streets and all around

I’m only walking

I know this town

I know this town

We dam the streams, we raid the shacks

And hide in boxcars 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

And buy smokes and Dentyne

I find some loose change every day

Under that Coke machine

You check me out as you drive by

Like there was some big deal

But I know so much you’ll never find

From there behind the wheel

I’m only walking

Through these streets and all around

I’m only walking

I know this town

I know this town

I know this town

I know this town