I remember the summer I turned sixteen And that old jalopy Daddy gave to me It had holes in the floor and just a 305 But I didn't care 'cause I could finally drive There wasn't much to do in my hometown So every weekend night, we would all go down:
[Chorus:] There were freaks and hippies in my high school Football players all tryin' to be cool And everybody scramblin' to hide their beer When the cops drove by 'til the coast was clear Kids fallin' in and out of love On the hood of Chevys, in the beds of trucks We were stumblin' our way through life 'til our senior year But man we sure did learn a lot In that Wal-Mart parking lot
She had long blond hair and sea-green eyes The most beautiful thing I'd ever seen in my life But I was young and dumb and didn't have a line And all I could say was, "Can I call ya' sometime?" She just said no and walked away And that was the first time I felt my heart break
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Yeah, we all did a lot of livin' It was small-town teenage heaven
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Well I had my first kiss, my first love Got my ass kicked but I got back up Lost my way, found it again Had one long buzz and a dozen best friends In that Wal-Mart parking lot In that Wal-Mart parking lot