Mamma, she's still got that picture
Of me and Katie on homecomin' night
She looked pretty in that fancy dress

But that girl was a barefoot blue jean princess

A hand full of rocks and daddy's pine ladder

Sure did come in handy
For a teenage boy thinkin' all that mattered
Was a kiss that taste like candy


Back in the day we were wild and free
She was my dashboard drummer

Butterflies in the backseat
Little footprints on my window
Parkin' my Chevy by the riverside

And four letters in a heart carved in a pine
A little sun dress layin up there on the bank
While the water washed our innocence away

Back in the day

Friday nights I'd look up there in the bleachers

And I can see her,
with my letter man's jacket on
And I still got this scar here on my right hand

From when Bobby told her she deserved a better man

Aw.. She hung right with me down in panama city

Raisin' hell on our senior trip
and man ain't it funny
it gets the best of me

And I just can't forget
I just can't forget


Back in the day we were wild and free
She was my dashboard drummer
Butterflies in the backseat

Little footprints on my window
Parkin' my Chevy by the riverside
And four letters in a heart carved in a pine

A little sun dress layin up there on the bank
While the water washed our innocence away
Back in the day


Summer was over
College was callin' man I had to watch her leave

But I still wonder if she ever thinks of me

'Cause back in the day we were wild and free

She was my dashboard drummer
Butterflies in the backseat
Little footprints on my window

Parkin' my Chevy by the riverside
And four letters in a heart carved in a pine
A little sun dress layin up there on the bank

While the water washed our innocence away
Feels like yesterday
Back in the day

Back in the day