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Artist/Band: Bill Anderson
Lyrics for Song: Twenty Years
Lyrics for Album: Fine Wine [Reprise] [1998]



I asked the man who drove the bus

To let me off at Maple Avenue

He looked at me through puzzled eyes

And said, "You don't live around here, do you?"



I said, "No but I don't come from quite as far back

In the steeps as it appears"

He said, "Yeah but we ain't had a Maple Avenue

Around here for twenty years"



I got off the bus and asked a man

To show me how to get to Sam's cafe

He stared at me real funny, said

"They tore it down when Big Sam passed away"



I said, "Well, I've been away a while

I guess perhaps my memory's not too clear"

He shook his head and said, "It's sad

But Sam's been gone for almost twenty years"



My old hometown sure has changed in twenty years

I guess there's no point asking if Betty, Carol, Jackson

Still lives anywhere close to here

This is where I always thought we'd build our dream house

But that dream disappeared

And that's the biggest reason I've only come back once in twenty years



I remember it just like yesterday

The Friday night we held our senior prom

I'd walked outside to get some air

And found her there in Billy Taylor's arms



The kids all laughed at me and said

They known about it since our junior year

I got so mad and hurt so bad

I hit the road and stayed for twenty years



It still hurts today the same way it's hurt for twenty years

All the heartaches linger and they still point their finger at me

And all my painful souvenirs, I thought maybe I'd matured a bit

But I guess I'm still wet behind the years



I think I'll head home down the road

Maybe try again in twenty years

Yeah, I guess I'll head home down the road

You can look for me again in twenty years


Album Lyrics: Fine Wine [Reprise] [1998]


Bill Anderson
"Fine Wine [Reprise] [1998]"


1. The Paper
2. Forgiveness
3. Way Too Much Time On My Hands
4. Twenty Years