Written by Chris Brock

(Verse 1)
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Sunday afternoon, nothing better to do, I decided to take a 
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little drive.
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I took Randoll Mill down to West Green Oaks, pack of smokes and a 
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Dr. Pepper by my side.
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Soon I found myself at the old apartments, where my mama raised 
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me by herself.
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They sure look a little bit smaller now than they did when I was 
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just a kid, in Arlington.


(Verse 2)
In Arlington mama worked two jobs, just trying to make ends meet.
I never did have any $90 shoes, but me and Danny always had stuff under the tree.
I was just boy then so I don’t know, if I ever really told her thanks.
Well mom I’m saying it now, the best way I know how, with a song about you raising me, in Arlington.


(Chorus)
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It was Arlington, where my brother was born.
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It was Arlington, where Grandpa died.
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No, Arlington ain’t never done me wrong,
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Hope I do it justice with this simple little song.
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This simple little song.


(Verse 3)
Next thing I know, I’m on Arkansas, at my Grandma’s old restaurant.
You can’t tell now what a great place this was, ‘cause now it’s just another rundown pub.
Carmello’s was where I got my first job, bussing tables for minimum wage.
Now it’s gone, but my memory’s not, and thing’s will never be the same, in Arlington.


(Verse 4)
Headed down California Lane, pulled in the front of my first school.
They’ve added a wing and the parking lot grew, this ain’t the Short Elem. I once knew.
There’s a new playground, and the gravel’s been paved, there ain’t no one there to pick on me.
Then a storm started brewing, so I got back to rolling down the streets and old memories, of Arlington.


(Repeat Chorus)
(Break)
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(Verse 6)
Now I only lived there for a little while, we were gone by the time I turned 12.
10 years later and I still don’t know, why things worked out the way they have.
Mom met this man, and she took his hand, and they moved us to another city.
Though my friends are gone, I guess life moves on, and I’ll always have my memories,  of Arlington.

(Repeat Chorus x2, one strum per chord last time through.)