Days of Graduation

Bobby went out for a joyride with my best girl Left me at the party It was almost June and the three-quarter moon illuminated The rain-soaked streets like a candy wrapper I guess that's why Bobby had his lights off Tear-assing through them backstreets of town Where me and Bobby tear-assed so many times before Sometimes with my best girl Sometimes Bobby had him one too But this night he banked that curve Just a little too hard and that 442 went airborne Hit a telephone pole and split in two Bobby's skull was split right in two And my girl was pinned in her seat, partially embedded in the dashboard And for the next 20 minutes the only sound in the night were the sounds of her screams And the sound of the wheels still spinning In a little while the ambulance came And the sound of its Siren Mixed with the screaming girl and the spinning wheel But when the story was told The next day at the graduation ceremony Everyone said that when the paramedics got there They could hear free bird playing on the stereo You know it's a very, very long song