Class of 65

words and music
Allan Thomas

I'be been thinking back to a time I used to know
When we heard the latest sounds on AM radio
Smokey Robinson the Miracles Drifters too
After all these years those songs still ring true
But times are different now then they were back then
With my '55 Pontiac and my steady girlfriend
In the class of '65

I remember signing yearbooks graduation night
Everybody was destined to do alright
The future before us like an unread book
And we listened to Aretha Ray Charles and Sam Cooke
Adolescent outlaws innocent and studious
Out for a chuckle and wing our way through it
Class of '65 we were the class of '65

Back before Walkman's and satellite TV
American Bandstand and high fidelity
Ducktail hairdo's Silvertone guitars
Drive-in movies back seat of your car

Listening to Wilson Pickett and Ben E King
A concealed transistor radio so we could hear 'em sing
In a class of '65

Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Dylan and the Beatles
Soundtrack of our day
I remember now we were the class of '65
'65

©1988 Black Bamboo Music - BMI