75 Septembers Lyrics - Lifelines Live - Peter, Paul & Mary

In the year of the yellow cab 

In the shadow of the great world war 

The third kid grandmom had 

Came into this world 

On a rolling farm in Maryland 

When Wilson was the President 

And summer blew her goodbye through the trees 

A child of changing times 

Growing up between the wars 

The Fords rolled off the line 

And bars all closed their doors 

And I imagine you back then 

With snap brim hat and farmer's tan 

Where horses drew their wagons through the fields 

Now the fields are all four lanes 

And the moon's not just a name 

Are you more amazed at how things change 

Or how they stay the same? 

And do you sit here on this porch and wonder 

How the time flies by? 

Or does it seem to barely creep along 

With 75 Septembers come and gone? 

Were the fields all gold and fawn? 

Was the spring house dark and cool? 

Did the rooster crow at dawn 

When they got you up for school? 

And would you tell me once again 

The tales of granddad's hired men? 

And how they drove the old road to town 

Now the fields are all four lanes 

And the moon's not just a name 

Are you more amazed at how things change 

Or how they stay the same 

And do you sit here on this porch and wonder 

How the time flies by? 

Or does it seem to barely creep along 

With 75 Septembers come and gone?