I went driving through my old hometown   It was Thursday the bright sun on the horizon   I was surprised to see no one had burned it down   It seemed so peaceful and warm      Floods of memories came back to me   All the things we got away with when we were younger   And I felt kind of like a refugee   Like a scattered pile of leaves in a storm      Peaceful memory like lights on a Christmas tree   Every hometown should be peaceful and warm   Every father mother sister brother friend of the family   Peaceful and warm      Somehow now and then didn't seem to blend   'Till a farmer plowing his field waved hello   Another working man doing the best he can   I hope he is peaceful and warm      Peaceful memory plows in the green field sea   Every hometown should be peaceful and warm   Every father mother sister brother friend of the family   Peaceful and warm      On the Kansas banks of the Muddy Mo'   I threw rocks in the river and dreamed of running away   In a wind of change only a father knows   In a world so hectic so cold   I guess my old hometown's kinda dead and gone   Miss the sign on I-29 and you blow right by   But it's a place I can go remember where I come from   It will help me keep me peaceful and warm      Peaceful memory the only thing that's free   Take them and try to be peaceful and warm   Every father mother sister brother friend of the family   Peaceful peaceful and warm