I was born in a city with an arch and brewery
at work my family caught a bus twisting off beer tops
I skipped school every time I could
just to terrorize the neighborhood
and I was never up to nothing good
hanging round my block

I had some friend I think maybe, they were half crazy
if they wanted it they took it and called it their own
and everybody here wants to fight, and everybody knows that their right
and everybody has a real big knife
hanging round my block

Chorus:
Cuz on my block theres a liquor store and laundromat
and on my block theres a homeless man with a bottle in a paper sack
theres a girl on the corner named cat, if you come home watch your back
you better lock up that Cadillac hanging on my block.

Well my dad packed up the family and moved to Arkansas
and we moved in with my Granny until we got our home
my uncle drew water from a well with not bottom as far as I could tell
and those chickens they really did smell hanging round my block

and it seemed like forever to get to town and back
and man I'd never ever seen a girl like that
as home grown as she could be, she made me weak at both knees
and guess what, she lived next to me over on my block.

Yeah cuz on my block there's no blacktop just an old dirt road
and on my block theres a thousand miles of great fishing holes
theres about a million stars or so, with a home grown country girl
I better swing in and give her a whirl, hangin round my block.

Yeah cuz on my block there's no blacktop just an old dirt road
and on my block theres a thousand miles of great fishing holes
theres about a million stars or so, with a home grown country girl
I better swing in and give her a whirl, hangin round my block.