Well my daddy didn't pull out, but he never apologized Rock and Roll means well, but it can't help tellin' young boys lies A baby on the ways a good enough reason to get you out alive Get you out without having to swallow any pride All my friends are restless, all they do is talk it down Two or eight lanes, it don't matter, it's just another town There's a fool on every corner, on every street in every one And I'd rather be your fool nowhere than go somewhere and be no one's So marry me, sweet thing won't you marry me Your Mama thinks I beat anything she's ever seen But this old towns alright with me, there's nowhere I'd rather be Long as they stay mad at one another, well they can't get mad at me Every time I leave here something bad happens to me Like a busted hand or finding some man laying where I sleep She don't mean nothing to me, that's just how it goes round here It's a cartoon town, I play my part and I ain't spoke her name in years So marry me, sweet thing won't you marry me Your Mama thinks I beat anything she's ever seen Well this old towns alright with me, there's nowhere I'd rather be Long as they stay mad at one another, well they can't get mad at me Let's go I don't want anything I done to be nobodys fault Even if they got more money and mouth than they got balls Well that's just how it went down, right or wrong, it's just that way They're just, 'cause I don't run my mouth don't mean I got nothing to say Marry me, sweet thing won't you marry me Your Mama thinks I beat anything she's ever seen Well this old towns alright with me, there's nowhere I'd rather be Long as they stay mad at one another, well they can't get mad at me So marry me, sweet thing won't you marry me Marry me, sweet thing won't you marry me