Cross Canadian Ragweed - 17 Lyrics






Sirens wail and a flashin' light.
Nothing better to do on a Tuesday night,
But give me hell.
Where you headed, what are you out for?
We don't see much of you 'round here anymore.
I guess it's just as well.
Well once upon a time you had it all,
You let everybody down.
You're always seventeen in your hometown.

Running from your folks, running from the law.
Running from love, running from your fears, running from it all.
You keep on running boy,
You run yourself in the ground.
You're always seventeen in your hometown.

Her porch swing still looks the same.
She probably won't even remember my name,
Just like she didn't back then.
Is she married, is she doing fine,
Does she know about all the nights I lay awake crying
just to know her hand?
The door opens and I run away, just like the same 'ole clown.
You're always seventeen in your hometown.

Running from your folks, running from the law.
Running from love, running from your fears, running from it all
You keep on running boy,
You run yourself in the ground.
You're always seventeen in your hometown.

Well nobody is gonna miss me
No tears will fall, no one's gonna weep
When I hit that road.
My boots are broken, my brain is sore
From keeping up with their little world,
I got a heavy load.
Gonna leave 'em on just like before, I'm big city bound.
You're always seventeen in your hometown.

Running from your folks, running from the law.
Running from love, running from your fears, running from it all.
You keep on running boy,
You run yourself in the ground.
You're always seventeen
Yeah, you're always seventeen
You're always seventeen in your hometown.





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  1. K.... 3....

    Stay in Canada. We got this...

  2. W.... K....

    they were the nirvana of country

  3. D.... D....

    Run away like the same old clown

  4. D.... D....

    All the nights you welled all the crying

  5. T.... F....

    Does anyone remember the calf fry in Stillwater.

  6. Q.... L....

    I didnt know creed got back together

  7. B.... B....

    Man been listening to these guys since I was in middle school lol they rock love this freaking album 💯🤘🙏👊🔥

  8. J.... E....

    ❤ still listening in 2019

  9. j.... ....

    ooh I used to love dancing to this! Good times!!!!

  10. C.... C....

    Kickass tune! Wish these guys were still together. Closest newest band that I can compare them to is Framing the Red!

  11. B.... L....

    *You're always 17 in your home town* 3:11 my Favorite part.

  12. L.... D....

    Things sure better since the Donald been number one, you betcha, boom, double boom.

  13. W.... W....

    These guys 🥰

  14. e.... t....

    Song reminds me when I was F’ing up in life so to get away from every body I relocated from Fort Worth TX to Midland TX to work the oil fields. Now I play it every time I’m driving down highway 377 on the way to work in Roanoke Texas.

  15. c.... ....

    Koe Wetzel brought me back- Summer 2019

    She misses Ragweed like I do.

    🤘🏽🇺🇸

    c.... ....

    Koe is the shit man

  16. P.... N....

    PirckinsHow funny.Good job boysPat from McAlester, OSU grad

  17. e.... ....

    Great song, killer video.

  18. G.... ....

    I remember when I was seventeen 39 1/2 years ago. I lived in a very small Oklahoma town. Went to a small High School with only 18 kids in my graduating class. I remember a very popular girl in my class that was pretty much “miss everything”.
    Her Mom was a teacher at a nearby school. The girl was well known to everyone around with a snotty attitude and perfect attendance for 13 years.
    You know the type. New cars, head cheerleader , very pretty, religous, and miss perfect. She was the first girl out of our graduating class that got pregnant out of wedlock. She didn’t marry the guy either. Got a menial job and married 3 or 4 times . Never made anything of herself. She died last year single and alone and was always dependent on her parents for help. I was the only classmate to attend her funeral. This song came out several years ago before her death of course and I always
    thought of her when I heard this song because she had it all including a bright future ahead of her and she blew it. She lived in our little town of 200 people her entire life. She’ll always be 17 in that town .

    G.... ....

    Omg man

    G.... ....

    Wow..that’s deep man.

    G.... ....

    Must have been Blair. Lol

  19. s.... ....

    Love this song!
    Saw him with The Departed in Baton Rouge awhile back - awesome!

  20. S.... S....

    exoduos

  21. D.... T....

    I use to work at Tumbleweed working the gate to back stage. Man I had fun sitting up the stage for them. They were super nice and very good entertainers

  22. D.... C....

    This may be my favorite song of every song ever sung.

    D.... C....

    Jenny Craig.

  23. S.... F....

    They should be a way bigger band than they are

  24. J.... O....

    Love this band haven't heard a bad song

  25. C.... C....

    One of these guys are from calumet my dad always talks about it but I live 10 minutes away in El Reno Ok

  26. k.... s....

    ain’t no way that old Camaro is gonna powerstall with that many people in it. lol.

  27. C.... A....

    Are those caterpillars ever gonna mate and have one super badass eyebrow??

  28. B.... M....

    If 50



    W.t.f ....if you're 50

  29. D.... ....

    Don't understand why they never made it mainstream

  30. F.... D....

    You pause a video and come back 5 mins later to resume it and it takes 2 minutes to pick it back up. I'll pay for a better option. Anybody got one?

  31. D.... T....

    Used to call it "Swamp Rock".

  32. c.... l....

    789 idiots that didn't like this song 🖕🇺🇸

  33. r.... h....

    Oklahoma outlaws. Keep on running boys!

  34. J.... D....

    🔥 🔥 🔥

  35. M.... M....

    Solid song that is so damn true.

  36. J.... K....

    I know he's an Oklahoma boy (I'm not mistaken, right?) But there's just something about cranking CCR as well as Turnpike Troubadors in my truck while driving through northern Michigan in the summertime. Never felt better.

  37. L.... M....

    Man, really wish they were still together. Would kill to go see this live

  38. D.... O....

    Man nostalgia is a Bitch!

  39. t.... k....

    All inspired by Cody being high at a carnival and looking to Boland and saying "Hey man, im pretty damn high, and the cops around here remember me from when I was 17:. Bold said "Well, Cody, "your always 17 in your hometown"

  40. H.... T....

    Alwsome 😎😎😎😎😎🎧🎧🎧🎧🎼🎼🎼🎼🎵🎵🎵🎉🎉🎉🎉🎆🎆🎆🎆🎆

  41. D.... L....

    I saw these guys 15 years ago at Austin rodeo in Texas, also saw my future x wife there the same night. This song is on so many levels I can’t even explain

  42. r.... ....

    JFC! This is dogshit.

  43. T.... F....

    Love this song

  44. D.... M....

    It's my 17th birthday right now. Listening to this song because wjy not

    D.... M....

    Enjoy man. It don't get any better in my experience.

  45. L.... ....

    How cute

  46. N.... C....

    What's the best CD they have ? Is there a greatest hits.?

  47. N.... C....

    When did they split up ?

  48. C.... H....

    Casey Donahew was their front man and he has a bad ass solo career.

    C.... H....

    Sorry...It was Cody Canada !

  49. w.... a....

    Playing along with the lyrics, I'd LOVE to ask that little law man, "Where are YOU from?"

  50. T.... C....

    Not gonna lie, my folks played this song on my 17th birthday

  51. R.... A....

    Never had a home town. Sometimes I envy those who do.

  52. D.... ....

    Back when country was still good.

  53. c.... u....

    What a great song, brings you back to your youth................

  54. J.... B....

    This song introduced me to Texas music. Thank y'all so much. I still love ragweed even though you're not together anymore. You're awesome Cody!

  55. D.... t....

    My dad gave them a pack of cigarettes back in the day

  56. C.... M....

    Good song. All electrics in the video. Acoustic on the recording. #plothole

  57. K.... S....

    She's meant to

  58. F.... V....

    Love that 70s Camaro but how bout that Starsky n Hutch paintjob?

  59. C.... F....

    This is the first music video I ever saw. My dad picked the dvd up at Hastings and gave it to me for my birthday. You guys were my first cd.. wow these memories take me back. Thanks for the music y’all are great! Come see us in Stillwater.

  60. J.... G....

    The greatest Reddirt band ever!

  61. d.... p....

    Love, love, love them, miss them so much

  62. D.... L....

    one of the best songs of all time'

  63. B.... J....

    They are playing in concert tonight in OKC! 12-7-17! My son it there! WOW It brings back memories!

  64. G.... G....

    Was one of the beat nands EVER!!

  65. T.... ....

    Come on man, Despacito can get 5 Billion views but This can’t get 3 Million?

    T.... ....

    Tyr I’m probably about 1.5 million of those brother

  66. C.... B....

    My all time favorite band, period. They were also the best live show I've ever seen. Truly music monsters

  67. s.... l....

    Scott Copeland brought me here...nice

  68. J.... B....

    I had grew up in Meeker Oklahoma love those days

  69. T.... ....

    Jason Boland inspired this song.

  70. B.... T....

    Was this shot in Mobile Al?

    B.... T....

    Jonathan Davis Perkins Oklahoma

  71. k.... w....

    Didn't discover this band til about a year ago. Wish I could of seen them in concert.

  72. B.... L....

    i heard ragsdale left for a few years to spend time with his son

  73. S.... M....

    I love the Mike McClure cameo.

  74. D.... H....

    How is it that Cross Canadian Ragweed is not bigger?!?

    D.... H....

    They are no longer together

  75. J.... K....

    This songs makes me think about the good old days. And also makes me miss the simplness of my youth. Unfortunately now straining down the barrel of 40 and several terrible choices later successes that took a lifetime/childhood to acquire are gone in a blink of an eye. Driving through my Hometown Bethany Oklahoma makes me want to stop the clock backup and do it all over again though Minor Details different I can't elaborate work story is no reason I guess

    J.... K....

    I feel you I'll be 31 this November and I still can't believe how quickly it's gone by.

  76. D.... S....

    the only good thing to come out of Oklahoma.

  77. L.... R....

    I am cousins with the drummer :)

    L.... R....

    Logan Ragsdale explains your last name

    L.... R....

    This was the essence of Southern Rock in a post Lynyrd Skynyrd time. Ragweed (and the Ragsdale Family) rocked! :)

    L.... R....

    I love logan

  78. T.... ....

    I liked every comment your welcome

  79. C.... G....

    His new band is great too Cody Canada and the departed

  80. T.... h....

    I wish I could live like these guy, I live in a suburb of Raleigh, NC with my parents (only 13 year old) but my mom grew up in Seguin, TX so she knows what that like. I wish I could move closer to TX and OK.

    p.s. Cody Canada is a friend of my mom. 😊😊😊

    T.... h....

    Tripp has a finger i was born in seguin. Grew up outside of dallas spent every summer in Nixon tx.

    T.... h....

    honestly coming from an OK native it’s not that different. more fields, more cows, less people, more racists. foods great, and sunsets are beautiful though :-)

  81. p.... h....

    I came for the Baldwin motion

  82. 2.... b....

    back when music was actually good

  83. B.... L....

    "You keep on running boy, you'll run yourself in the ground." 🍺🍺🍺

  84. J.... S....

    Love that!

  85. e.... ....

    Song reminds me of the old days with my friends, so many good memories. Thank you.

  86. B.... M....

    My beautiful baby likes this song..She is the best wish she would come see me

  87. S.... R....

    How he gonna be blonde with them black ass eyebrows!!! but he sings good though!!

    S.... R....

    Samantha Ramirez ; now honey my middle boy's that way an' belieeve me he don't use that bleach-bottle none; got curly dark blond hair, black eyes n' brows and olive-brown skin; handsome as the Devil in snakeskin shoes...

  88. B.... S....

    RHS class of 2006 graduation song :)

  89. 1.... ....

    is Wade Bowen the cashier?

    1.... ....

    1971player it does look like him lol

    1.... ....

    I think it is. Him being Cody's bro in law and all

  90. 1.... ....

    is Wade Bowen the cashier?

  91. C.... C....

    Ba song

  92. 6.... ....

    How is it this song only has 1.5MM views?

  93. l.... ....

    True story

  94. F.... ....

    Texas classic.

    F.... ....

    Tony Garces Jr yeah but they formed in Stillwater

    F.... ....

    Frogolicicous Frog 01 I know them personally and they're all from Oklahoma but they moved to Texas after the band was formed, so most of there songs were formed in the state of Texas which makes it a Texas classic

    F.... ....

    My friend, I was just referring to "Texas" music, aka "Red Dirt". And believe me there's a lot of Ragweed fans here in Texas.

    F.... ....

    Pretty sure the rest of the band is from Oklahoma. Cody was born in Texas and moved to OK in his teens

    F.... ....

    Hey y'all. I know that Ragweed was an Oklahoma-based band. Cody and Jeremy both live in TX now, but I can't say for the rest of Ragweed. I was just referring to the Texas music scene, or Red Dirt scene. This song is a classic for the genre, that never got due respect on national radio. That's all I meant. Not trying to start an argument over who was from where, although Cody was actually born in TX. Lol

  95. j.... ....

    Funny how they clearly have acoustic guitars in their songs but you never see them playing anything but electric. Simple, uncomplicated music like this is always the best in my opinion.

  96. H.... S....

    best music ever!!

  97. h.... g....

    this is a good song

  98. D.... G....

    Badass!