Summer of Drugs

Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the woods behind the house

Nobody was home so I grabbed her foot and I sucked that poison out

My sister got better in a month or two when the swelling it went down

But I'd started off my teenage years with a poison in my mouth

And we were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

We turned to a teen in the late 70's

In the summer of the drugs

Mama and daddy could never understand that life was never dull

Their idea of a rollicking time was a kitchen taffy pull

Acid grass downs and speed, junk those days were made of

How could they suspect those kids where the monsters beneath their makers

And they were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

They turned to a teen in the late 70's

In the summer of the drugs

Boys and girls in every town

Sand man spread his sand around

Now we are just waking up

From a summer of drugs

Hey hey (hey hey), wow wow (wow wow)

Uh huh (uh huh), yeah yeah (yeah yeah)

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

Mommies and daddies were too shy to talk about those birds and bees

The integrated schools had stopped the facts of life movies

Girls and boys went away and came back, empty after the weekend

The talk on the phone consisted of hushed voices speaking

And they were too young to be hippies

(Too young to be hippies)

Missed out on the love

(Missed out on the love)

They turned to a teen in the late 70's

In the summer of the drugs

'Cause they were too young

(Too young)

And they were too fast

(Too fast)

The summer of the...

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