I had a hand me down ride
painted rattle can red
Second hand tires
with poor boy tread
Made a lot of almost love
in the bed of that
truck that got stuck a lot
Just letter jacket boys
singin' Jerry Jeff songs
Drinkin' everything
we could get our hands on
Learnin' 'bout right
by doin' it wrong
Hopin' we didn't get caught
And we spent what little
bit of money we had
On wintergreen Skoal
and main street gas
Go get your girl
Go make the drag
If your lucky you can take
her cross the rail road tracks
Where the man in the moon
works his magic
on the second runner
up of the 4H pageant
Seems like yesterday
even though
that was fourteen hundred
and fifty two beers ago
Skipped that town
on my birthday
For eighteen years
I was headed that way
Where old red
stopped I just stayed
in a room without a view
I met a one look girl
in a two bit bar
I had a place she had a car
I won her heart with my guitar
I sang her the homesick blues
And I'm spendin' what little
bit of money we had
on wintergreen Skoal
and main street gas
Go get your girl
Go make the drag
If your lucky you can take
her cross the rail road tracks
Where the man in the moon
works his magic
on the second runner
up of the 4H pageant
Seems like yesterday
even though
thst was fifteen hundred
and sixty two beers ago
Spendin' what little
bit of money we had
on wintergreen Skoal
and main street gas
And go get your girl
And go make the drag
If your lucky you can take
her cross the rail road tracks
Where the man in the moon
works his magic
on the second runner
up of the 4H pageant
Seems like yesterday
even though
that was sixteen hundred
and fifty two beers
A whole lot of highway
A whole lot of years
Sixteen hundred
and fifty three beers ago