People Know You By Your First Name

It's a town just outside of nowhere With a general store and one lamp pole We got wheat fields saw mills and coal mines Down home country folks Raised on 4H and dance hall auctions Spaghetti dinners and parkin' lot fights Oh, we might be a little bit backwoods But 'round here that's all right Where people know you by your first name What kinda truck you drive How your team did back in high school So you can't lie Better watch out who you take home 'Cause 'round here it's a fact of life That people know you by your first name And what you did last night So c'mon down to our fund raiser dinner it'll be a high school reunion I swear Another family fallin' on hard times So there won't be an empty chair Listen close and you'll hear a local legend (Jimmy Crocket) and that twelve point rack Oh and you thought you were alone skinny dippin' in the springs last night Word here travels fast Where people know you by your first name what kinda truck you drive How your team did back in high school So can't lie Better watch out who you take home 'Cause 'round here it's a fact of life That people know you by your first name And what you did last night Here we go Where people know you by your first name what kinda truck you drive How your team did back in high school So can't lie Better watch out who you take home 'Cause 'round here it's a fact of life That people know you by your first name And what you did last night Yeah people know you by your first name And what you did last night --- People Know You by Your First Name - Dean Brody