Back In 72 Lyrics - Back In '72 - Bob Seger

Words and music by bob seger 

Been in Northport, hung on a short short 

Livin' with a bottle of wine 

With music ladies and burned out babies 

I was tryin' to write a couple of lines 

Sherriff Gribbs with his grim ad libs 

Spoutin' about the crime in the street 

And women were screamin' and some was dreamin' 

'Bout the crimes between the sheets 

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You know that music died, hurt my pride 

But somehow I pulled through, back in '72 

Somehow we made it to Baton Rouge 

We stayed inside for a week 

We weren't in town for no Mardi Gras 

So we decided to sleep 

Houston, yes, was a good old guest 

Lord knows how bad we wanted to play 

But we got homesick for Lincoln Park, imagine 

And man we just couldn't stay 

Tricky Dick, he played it slick 

Something I was afraid he'd do, back in '72 

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Then all our new born philosophers 

Our windows for the world 

Pessimistic psuedo-intellectual 

Avant-garde-ish pearls 

Takin' notes on the holocost 

They're copying it down on their sleeve 

It was so hip to be negative 

So square to try and believe 

When the waters cleared, it was what we feared 

We learned nothin' new, 

Back in '72