That Summer Lyrics - The Statler Brothers

It was the same summer I learned to play 

'It Had To Be You' on the piano 

The same summer we jumped the fence at the fair 

And you won in two throws the pink dog I tried all night to win 

There's a storehouse of song titles 

I can recite from that summer 

I hear one every now and then 

It seems I'm always driving when I hear one 

I turn the radio up and blank my mind 

And let it drift, it's a good thing 

I never hear more than one at a time 

Or I don't think I could see to drive 

I see pictures taken that summer 

Every time I give my personal belongings 

Their annual cleaning out 

Remember the one that was taken 

In your back yard the evening of graduation? 

You wrote on the back, you wrote 

Well you know what you wrote 

Or maybe you don't but I do 

I still go to the same theater we went to that summer 

I always sit about tenth from the back on the right 

You always got a headache if we sat any closer 

And had to squint if we sat any farther back 

You were a lot of trouble to me 

Of course I see the same people 

We saw that summer 

None of them ever mention you 

I guess they don't know 

I still remember you like I do 

Or maybe they do know 

I still remember you like I do 

Maybe that's why they don't mention you 

And the places, the places are still there 

Although most of them have changed 

That narrow bumpy dirt road up to the knoll 

Where we used to park has been paved 

And a new housing development has gone in 

Houses, cars, and people have invaded our place 

Where your innocence became my guilt 

People live daily as if nothing has ever happened 

On that piece of ground 

I've learned other songs on the piano 

The fair doesn't come anymore 

Until late September 

And those songs make me 

Sad now instead of happy 

The pictures have gotten bent 

And corners broken off 

They've put on a new wide screen 

And swinging chairs in the theater 

The people have grown older 

And the knoll is a pool of lights after dark 

But the summers are still hot and that's the 

'Bout the only thing that hasn't changed 

Except that I still love you