I Know This Town Lyrics - Bette Of Roses - Bette Midler

I know these streets and these backyards 

This barn that's falling down 

We come to where they're buildin' now 

And ride our bikes around 

You think I'm just a little kid 

Some trouble's on the way 

But I knew this place before you did 

Is all I've got to say 

I'm only walkin' 

Through these streets and all around 

I'm only walkin' 

I know this town 

We come home through these fields at night 

About a million times 

I'd walk the road with my eyes closed 

And all the paths besides 

And I know the boy who broke this fence 

And I know his brother, too 

And they'd never give me half a chance 

If I let on to you 

I'm only walkin' 

Through these streets and all around 

I'm only walkin' 

I know this town 

I know this town 

I know 

I know 

I know 

We dam the streams, we raid the shacks 

And hide in boxcars on the tracks 

We know these quarries in our sleep 

And where they're cold and where they're deep 

I know 

I know 

I know 

I'll go down to the bowling alley 

And buy smokes and dentyne 

I find some loose change every day 

Under that coke machine 

You check me out as you drive by 

Like there was some big deal 

But I know so much you'll never find 

From there behind the wheel 

(Behind the wheel) 

I'm only walkin' 

Through these streets and all around 

I'm only walkin' 

I know this town 

I know this town 

I know this town 

I know this town