When I Was A Kid

Laid back in the tall green grass
Stared up at the big blue sky
Saw a T-Rex in a puffy white cloud
Smiled at me as he floated on by

Yeah Yeah

Had a pickup ballgame back in the yard
I loved to hear the crack of that bat
Tommy said "Jimmy you're throwin' too hard"
Tommy took his ball home and that was that
So it was back to the woods for hide 'n go seek
Ten Mississippi and you'd better not peek
That was the kind of summertime stuff we did
When I Was A Kid

When I Was A Kid we made our own fun
Played outside from sun to sun
No cell phone, SnapChat, Facebook friends
Those long hot summers never seemed to end
No TikTok, X Box, video games
Everybody in the neighborhood knew us by name
And they'd tell our Mamas if they didn't like somethin' we did
When I Was A Kid

Me and Johnny and my dog Sam
We'd go fishin' couple times a week
Across the road past Miller's farm
About a quarter mile down to Buffalo Creek
Nothin' bitin' and Sam jumped in
We all just decided that we'd take a swim
That was the kind of summertime stuff we did
When I was A Kid

When I Was A Kid we made our own fun
Played outside from sun to sun
No cell phone, SnapChat, Facebook friends
Those long hot summers never seemed to end
No TikTok, X Box, video games
Everybody in the neighborhood knew us by name
And they'd tell our Mama's if they didn't like somethin' we did
When I Was A Kid

Man today's such a crazy world
Wish I could build me a time machine
Take my kids go back in the day
Let 'em look around, they could see what I mean

And we'd just lay back in the tall green grass
Stare up at the big blue sky
Find a T-Rex in a puffy white cloud and watch him smile
As he floats on by
Just like he did
When I Was A Kid
When I Was A Kid
That's what we did
When I Was A Kid