This Town Gets Around

Album: Midwest Farmer's Daughter (2016)
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  • In this town everybody's trying to get a piece of everybody else
    It gets hard to tell a real friend from a fake one
    So many promises, favors, and lies
    Most of the town wears a good disguise
    And even I, too, have been known to wear one

    As the saying goes, it's not who you know
    But it's who you blow that'll get you in the show
    And if that's not the case I hear you pay 'em
    But I don't come easy and I'm flat broke
    So I guess it's me who gets the joke
    Maybe I'd be smarter if I played dumb

    I can't count all the times I've been had
    Now I know much better than to let that make me mad
    I don't let none of that get me down
    From what I've found this town gets around

    Now the very first manager I ever had
    He was old enough he could have been my dad
    He took me out for drinks and talked a big talk
    He said, "darling sign on the dotted line
    You know, "kiss my cheek and drink this wine
    But if you walk on me, then you can just walk

    I can't count all the times I've been had
    Now I know much better than to let that make me mad
    I don't let none of that get me down
    From what I've found this town gets around

    When I first came here the streets were paved with gold
    And you can walk that road, I've been told
    But I won't put out or be controlled
    I don't write the shit that gets bought and sold
    Ask any man
    He might know
    Who used to live on Music Row
    But that was then, and this is now
    He told me this town gets around
    From what I've found this town gets around Writer/s: MARGO PRICE
    Publisher: Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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