A Prairie Home Companion: May 29, 2004

Summer Days (Lyrics)
Saturday, May 29, 2004
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In the valley here we be
Sitting on your daddy's knee
Freddie and his brother Charlie
Eating chocolate candy.

Summer days when I was a kid
All the funny things we did,
When grownups came, we ran and hid,
Back behind the lilacs.

Back when I was five years old
Rode my bike on dusty roads
Through the fields of corn and oats
Pretending it was an airplane

In the heat of the summer sun
Round and round the yard we run
Chased the dog and just for fun
We put him in the sprinkler.

Tearing all around the place
Through the woods and home we chase
Capture the Flag and Prisoner's Base
Until the sun was setting.

Summer days my pals and I
Lay and looked up at the sky
Wondered how do airplanes fly
Over Minnesota.

Back when I was young as you
I fought with the boys in blue
Chasing Stonewall Jackson through
The woods of northern Virginia.