Soul Asylum – Summer Of Drugs (Guitar)

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

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

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

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

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And we were too young to be hippies missed out on love

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Learned from the teens in the late seventies in a summer of the drugs

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Mommy and Daddy could never understand that life was never dull

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Their idea of a rollicking time was a kitchen taffy pull

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Acid, grass, downs and speed, junked us days were made of

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

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And they were too young to be hippies missed out on love

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We learned from the teens of the late seventies in a

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Summer of the drugs

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Boys and girls in every town

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Sandman spread his sand around

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Now we are just waking up from a summer of drugs

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Hey hey (hey hey), woh woh (woh woh), uh-huh (uh-huh)

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Hey yeah (hey yeah), hey hey (hey hey), woh woh (woh woh)

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Oh yeah yeah yeah

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Mommies and Daddies are too shy to talk about those birds and bees

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Integrated schools had stopped, facts of life please

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Girls and boys went away came back, empty after weekend

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The talk on the phone consisted of a hush, voices speaking

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And they were too young to be hippies missed out on love

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Return to our teen in the late seventies in a summer of the drugs

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And they were too young (too young)

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And they were too fast (too fast)

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    Oh, the summer of drugs