I had a friend was a big baseball player
back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you

Make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out

We went back inside sat down had a few drinks
but all he kept talking about was


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Glory days well they'll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye

Glory days, glory days

Well there's a girl that lives up the block

back in school she could turn all the boy's heads
Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by
and have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed

Her and her husband Bobby well they split up
I guess it's two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times,

she says when she feels like crying
she starts laughing thinking about


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My old man worked 20 years on the line

and they let him go
Now everywhere he goes out looking for work
they just tell him that he's too old

I was 9 nine years old and he was working at the
Metuchen Ford plant $$#embly line
Now he just sits on a stool down at the Legion hall

but I can tell what's on his mind

Glory days yeah goin back

Glory days aw he ain't never had
Glory days, glory days


Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
and I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it

but I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a little of the glory of, well time slips away

and leaves you with nothing mister but
boring stories of glory days


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