Chain-Link Fence

Verse 1

I was seventeen with a borrowed truck

Mama hollered don't you stay out late

Met you down at Miller's corner store

Two cherry Cokes and a paper sack

You climbed in and slammed the rusty door

Said your daddy wouldn't like it much

Pre-Chorus

So we drove

Past the water tower

Past the county line

Where the blacktop ends

Chorus

By the chain-link fence

Where the tall grass bends

Where the creek runs low

That's where we'd go

By the chain-link fence

Every Friday night

Just two kids and the radio

Verse 2

Your brother caught us sneaking back at dawn

Said he'd tell if I didn't mow his yard

So I pushed that mower all July

Sweat and gasoline and purple sky

You watched me from the porch swing laughing hard

And I'd do it twice again

Pre-Chorus

For one more drive

Past the water tower

Past the county line

Where the blacktop ends

Chorus

By the chain-link fence

Where the tall grass bends

Where the creek runs low

That's where we'd go

By the chain-link fence

Every Friday night

Just two kids and the radio

Fiddle Solo

Bridge

Summers fade

Towns get small

People grow

And I still call

Your name sometimes

When the courthouse clock

Rings out the hour

I swear I hear your laugh

Chorus

By the chain-link fence

Where the tall grass bends

Where the creek runs low

That's where we'd go

By the chain-link fence

Every Friday night

Just two kids and the radio

Outro

Mm

Two kids and the radio

Mm-hmm

Just two kids and the radio