Chevy Town

Chevy Town (Charlie Walmsley)

Detroit made Lincolns on the Rouge River
Flint made Buicks that could run forever
Where I came from the cars were plain
Like my brand new sixty-five black Biscayne

I grew up in a Chevy town
The factory whistle was our workaday sound
We liked our American automobiles
We liked making something out of smoke and steel

Chevy town where the living was good
Saginaw River, hear that freighter sound
Chevys were heavy in every neighborhood
That’s how we got around in a Chevy Town, my Chevy Town

If you didn’t like school, you could make it okay
You could get a job about any day
If you didn’t like the work, you could lay your tools down
Jobs were dime a dozen in a Chevy town

I started out on the factory floor
Then I quit to take a job in a grocery store
Cutting beef steaks and slicing hams
Takes a lot of meat to feed a Chevy man

Chevy town where the living was good
Saginaw River, hear that freighter sound
Chevys were heavy in every neighborhood
That’s how we got around in a Chevy Town, my Chevy Town

Looking for a drink didn’t need to go far
Around every corner was a neighborhood bar
A shot and a beer for a buck and a half
Pickled eggs for a quarter, leave a tip for the laugh

Music in the park down by the riverside
I met a little lady and I offered her a ride
We drove to the carnival at the fairgrounds
That’s how I fell in love in a Chevy Town

Chevy town where the living was good
Saginaw River, hear that freighter sound
Chevys were heavy in every neighborhood
That’s how we got around in a Chevy Town, my Chevy Town

Now my black Biscayne is fifty years old
Parked in the garage and it will never be sold
Every now and then I still drive it around
Taking me back to my Chevy town

Chevy town where the living was good
Saginaw River, hear that freighter sound
Chevys were heavy in every neighborhood
That’s how we got around in a Chevy Town, my Chevy Town

We liked our American automobiles
We liked making something out of smoke and steel