Detroit Proud

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Well every town has it?s ups and downs 
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And there?s still more to be comin? round 
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So we?ll drive our way, we?ll say it loud 
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We?re built Ford tough and we?re Detroit proud 


Verses 
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Well, I was headed down to Detroit one day 
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And the wind almost blew my car away 
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I slid and I swerved and I just missed a truck 
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If you were in the car you might have heard me yell a curse word 

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Now all of that slidin put me into the ditch 
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And my axle was bent so I started to hitch 
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Now, everyone knows this Ain?t the safest city 
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The air was bitter cold and my cell service was?non existent 

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I walked I-94 passt a big ?ole tire 
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The cars flew by must of been an hour 
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At this point the cold had worn through my boots 
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(STOP) And my hand it was stuck in a one finger salute 

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When a white and blue Ford, ?round an ?85 Ranger 
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Pulled up along side me, I heard ?hop in stranger? 
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I climbed on in, over the roar of the engine heard 
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?Looks cold out there, my name?s Curtis Benson? 

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Now Curtis told me stories some maybe not true 
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But his leather brown hands had seen a time or two 
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I was so cold I just let him talk 
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If anything, hell, it sure beat the walk 

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Old Curtis he said 

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?I worked the assembly line my whole life 
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Lost a son to a war, cancer took my wife 
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Summer of ?67 worse than you can imagine 
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Watched this town?s politicians take the cake and the bag men? 

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But I keep on rolling just like this old truck 
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In the Spirit of Detroit, I learned to take a punch 
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Now they say this town?s coming back and I?m thinking 
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I could use a smooth ride,  (STOP) maybe I?ll trade for a Lincoln.? 


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Well every town has it?s ups and downs 
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And there?s still more to be comin? round 
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So we?ll drive our way, we?ll say it loud 
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We?re built Ford tough and we?re Detroit proud 


Final Verse 
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Now, Curtis dropped me off in front of Central Station 
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My heart was filled with jubilation 
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As we drove the brick streets of Michigan 12 
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I saw the old and the new, (RING OUT) and I thought to myself? 


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Well every town has it?s ups and downs 
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And there?s still more to be comin? round 
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So we?ll drive our way, we?ll say it loud 
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We?re built Ford tough and we?re Detroit proud
 

Ending 
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