Uploaded April 2015 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
The mics were hot and so was that rickety old barn where we recorded this song. I love "This Town" because it's so true to so many signer/songwriters who move to Nashville in pursuit of a career in the music business...
~ Paul
Paul is an Oologah, Oklahoma born singer/rider/roper now living in Nashville. If you were to look up the phrase “three chords and the truth” in the dictionary, you might see pictures of country legends like Merle Haggard, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash... but more recently, you might also see Paul. Though his songs are fresh and he himself is young, he is an old soul with a knack for capturing time-honored traditions and summing up classic sentiments in catchy, three-minute songs. Visit paulbogart.com for music, tour dates and more.
Download the latest album, "Oklahoma Wind":
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/OW-iTunes
CD Baby: cdbaby.com/cd/paulbogart7
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Lyrics
This town will make you polish up your boots
And pack up your best suit
And put a thousand miles of highway between you and the ones you love
This town will make you sell your daddy’s guitar
Sleep in the back of your car
Dreaming out the window at a sky full of stars
Oh it’s the taste of sweet and bitter
Oh no real losers no real winners
This town will make you reach down
To the place where the sound
Of a true song is born
This town will bring you to your knees
And make you beg her please
Baby don’t leave me in the town
This town is whisky bottles on the floor
It’s punching holes right through the door
When they tell you that you’ll never be good enough
This town it can lift you up so high
Make you think that you’re the sky
And for a moment you know why you’re alive
Oh it’ll take all you can give it
Oh and how quickly they forget it
Chorus
In this town, in this town…
This town it can take your simple song
And make the whole world sing along
And for fools like me that’s what it’s all about
And I guess that’s what keeps me hanging round
In this town
The mics were hot and so was that rickety old barn where we recorded this song. I love "This Town" because it's so true to so many signer/songwriters who move to Nashville in pursuit of a career in the music business...
~ Paul
Paul is an Oologah, Oklahoma born singer/rider/roper now living in Nashville. If you were to look up the phrase “three chords and the truth” in the dictionary, you might see pictures of country legends like Merle Haggard, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash... but more recently, you might also see Paul. Though his songs are fresh and he himself is young, he is an old soul with a knack for capturing time-honored traditions and summing up classic sentiments in catchy, three-minute songs. Visit paulbogart.com for music, tour dates and more.
Download the latest album, "Oklahoma Wind":
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/OW-iTunes
CD Baby: cdbaby.com/cd/paulbogart7
paulbogart.com
facebook.com/paulbogartmusic
twitter.com/paulbogartmusic
Lyrics
This town will make you polish up your boots
And pack up your best suit
And put a thousand miles of highway between you and the ones you love
This town will make you sell your daddy’s guitar
Sleep in the back of your car
Dreaming out the window at a sky full of stars
Oh it’s the taste of sweet and bitter
Oh no real losers no real winners
This town will make you reach down
To the place where the sound
Of a true song is born
This town will bring you to your knees
And make you beg her please
Baby don’t leave me in the town
This town is whisky bottles on the floor
It’s punching holes right through the door
When they tell you that you’ll never be good enough
This town it can lift you up so high
Make you think that you’re the sky
And for a moment you know why you’re alive
Oh it’ll take all you can give it
Oh and how quickly they forget it
Chorus
In this town, in this town…
This town it can take your simple song
And make the whole world sing along
And for fools like me that’s what it’s all about
And I guess that’s what keeps me hanging round
In this town
