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This Shirt - Mary Chapin Carpenter

This Shirt-Mary Chapin Carpenter.mp3
[00:42.23]This shirt is old and faded [00:45.29]Al...
[00:42.23]This shirt is old and faded
[00:45.29]All the colour's washed away
[00:49.06]I've had it now for more damn years
[00:51.74]Than I can count anyway
[00:56.10]I wear it beneath my jacket
[00:59.15]With the collar turned up high
[01:03.02]So old I should replace it
[01:07.11]But I'm not about to try
[01:16.98]This shirt's got silver buttons
[01:20.23]And a place upon the sleeve
[01:24.00]Where I used to set my heart up
[01:26.63]Right there where anyone could see
[01:30.28]This shirt is the one I wore to
[01:34.09]Every boring high school dance
[01:37.19]Where the boys ignored the girls
[01:40.34]And we all pretended to like the band
[01:51.32]This shirt was a pillow for my head
[01:54.74]On a train through Italy
[01:58.19]This shirt was a blanket beneath the love
[02:02.10]We made in Argeles
[02:05.22]This shirt was lost for three whole days
[02:09.03]In a town near Buffalo
[02:12.08]Until I found the locker key
[02:15.54]In a downtown Trailways bus depot
[02:33.13]This shirt is the one I lent you
[02:36.24]And when you gave it back
[02:40.05]It had a rip inside the sleeve
[02:43.00]Where you rolled your cigarettes
[02:46.91]It was the place I put my heart
[02:49.91]Now look at where you put a tear
[02:53.28]I forgave your thoughtlessness
[02:56.73]But not the boy who put it there
[03:00.49]This shirt was the place your cat
[03:04.00]Decided to give birth to five
[03:07.40]And we stayed up all night watching
[03:10.60]And we wept when the last one died
[03:14.41]This shirt is just an old faded piece
[03:19.41]Of cotton, shining like the memories
[03:24.42]Inside those silver buttons
[03:55.22]This shirt is a grand old relic
[03:58.73]With a grand old history
[04:02.64]I wear it now for Sunday chores
[04:05.45]Cleaning house and raking leaves
[04:09.26]I wear it beneath my jacket
[04:12.47]With the collar turned up high
[04:16.27]So old I should replace it
[04:20.43]But I'm not about to try
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