I posted my new verses for this song a month or so ago, before I knew how to make verses come out like verses instead of prose, so I thought I'd give it another shot. I still haven't learned to get the chords over the lines, but I guess that's not too important. This way seems to read okay.

(Verse 1 and chorus)
(C)Abilene, (E7)Abilene,
(F)Prettiest {F#dim}town I've (C)ever [A7]seen;
(D7)People there don't (G7)treat you mean,
In Abi(C)lene, {C7}my [F]A{Fmin}bi(C)lene.[G7]

Crowded city, there ain't nothin' free,
Nothin' in this crowd for me,
Wish to God that I could be
In Abilene, my Abilene.

I stand by my window every night
Watchin' trains roll out of sight;
I wish I may, I wish I might
Ride one back to Abilene.

I came to this city, but I can't remember why,
Been scratchin' to survive as the years go by,
I hope someday before I die
I make it back to Abilene.

I get so lonesome I lose my way,
If I can't find the road there'll be hell to pay,
God, I gotta make it back someday,
To Abilene, my Abilene.

The last two verses are mine, and I've changed the third to make the rhyme pattern consistent (and to tie the song to the childhood verse "Starlight, star bright,/First star I've seen tonight;/I wish I may, I wish I might/ Have this wish I wish tonight.")
I see the song now as a wish to return not just to the comfort and support of a childhood home, but a craving for lost innocence: Abilene, is of course, a symbol of heaven as well as childhood home, parallel, maybe, to the Garden of Eden.

A note on my chord symbols: Chords in parentheses (C) begin measures, chords in brackets [A7] come in the middle of the measure, and those in uppercase brackets {C7} come at the quarter mark. To make it clear, I'll write the chords for Abilene without the words, bracketed appropriately, with a period to represent beats where there is no chord change.

(C) . . . (E7) . . .
(F) . [F#dim] . (C) . [A7] .
(D7) . . . (G7) . . .
(C){C7}[F]{Fmin}(C) . (G7) .

I think this is correct, now. --seed