Summer of 71

Verse 1

Dust on the dashboard of a borrowed Ford

Radio hummin like a hungry chord

Corn rows green and the creek run dry

Brown hand on the wheel and a half-cocked sigh

Summer of 71

Hot tin roof and a loaded gun of youth

Pre-Chorus

Slippin out the screen door past midnight

Fireflies flickerin in the night

Cicadas singin low and long

That hollow hum that hums along

Chorus

Oh that summer of 71

Sweat and sweet tea under a hazy sun

Rattle and roll on a gravel road

Heart full of fire and a heavy load

Summer of 71

Oh we ran we ran we ran

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh

Summer of 71

Oh-oh-oh

Runner runner son

Verse 2

Jenny's perfume on a backseat pleat

Her laughter carryin down the street

Mama's silver dollar in my boot

Grandpa's pocket watch gone to root

Never bought the ticket in

Just rode the rail of youth and skin

Pre-Chorus

Couple quarters for a coke and a dime

Wishin we had a little more time

Tar melting on the blacktop swell

Half the world a story to tell

Chorus

Oh that summer of 71

Sweat and sweet tea under a hazy sun

Rattle and roll on a gravel road

Heart full of fire and a heavy load

Summer of 71

Oh we ran we ran we ran

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh

Summer of 71

Oh-oh-oh

Runner runner son

Bridge

Patches on the denim jacket

Smoke rings driftin slow

Nobody tells you how it passes

Till the fading's all you know

The screen door's gone and so's that sun

But the memory keeps the run

Chorus

Oh that summer of 71

Sweat and sweet tea under a hazy sun

Rattle and roll on a gravel road

Heart full of fire and a heavy load

Summer of 71

Oh we ran we ran we ran

Outro

Summer of 71

Runner runner son

Mm

Summer of 71