The Way It Was Back Then

I reminisce about my salad days Bell bottom blues jeans and purple haze Doing a doobie was so far out man Feeling groovy was all part of the plan Incense peppermints psychedelic lights Getting mellow yellow and tripping on Friday nights Out of sight I had an old Chevy that car was so cool I was rocking down the highway on the way to school Sometimes we'd get together and go cruising downtown Searching for the chicks that we never found I can still feel my hair blowing in the wind And singing everybody must get stoned again again And again Seventeen was so much fun We raised a little hell but never hurt no one Walking on the edge but never really falling in Ain't no sin Getting stoned every once and a while Thinking about it now it just makes me smile And if I could I'd do it all over again The way it was back then The way it was back then It's such a bummer those days have slipped away I was just seventeen and it seems like yesterday By the way I was playing at a rock n roll bop In walked a girl that made my heart stop A hippy chick who thought love was free And I'll be damned if she wasn't looking at me That brown eyed girl said I wanna hold your hand She took me out back and led me to the promise land Oh man Seventeen was so much fun We raised a little hell we never hurt no one Walking on the edge but never really fallin in Ain't no sin Getting stoned every once in a while Thinking about it now just makes me smile And if I could I'd do it all over again The way it was back then The way it was back then Seventeen was so much fun We raised a little hell we never hurt no one Walking on the edge but never really fallin in Ain't no sin Getting stoned every once in a while I think about it now it just makes me smile And if I could I'd do it all over again The way it was back then The way it was back then The way it was back then The way it was back then The way it was back then The way it was back then The way it was back then