Ditches Lyrics

When kids were kids and went outside

A favorite place to play and hide

Was a well carved ditch of rocks and earth

Easy to get an imagination's worth.

A ditch could be a Great War trench

Fighting the Hun beside the French.

It could be the surface of red, dry Mars

Just a stop on a voyage to distant stars.

Ditches grant wishes,

Ditches grant wishes,

Win a war

Or catch great Martian fishes.

A ditch could be a time tunnel

Or a nuclear submarine.

A ditch could be the dugout of

A favorite baseball team.

A ditch could just be anything

In countless made up plays

And it's easy to grow nostalgic for

Those simple childhood days.

Ditches hold riches

Ditches hold riches

Though it's easy to get dirty

And sometimes snag your britches.

The only limit was in the brain

But sometimes there was also pain.

One time I was caught in a rock fight attack

When sent to bring my brother back.

A busted, bloody lip didn't keep me from the ditch

I was right back in the canyon the next time I got the itch.

We knew the risk of getting hurt,

But you can't live in fear of a clod of dirt.

Ditches give stitches,

Ditches give stitches,

Get cut up

By a rock that someone pitches.

It's all a well-worn memory

That will fade away too soon

And this song is a reminder

Now it's time to ditch this tune.

Today they say that kids are stuck on screens

And everyone just likes to bitch

They should take the little buggers out

And throw 'em in a ditch

Cause ditches fill niches

And ditches give riches

And ditches grant wishes

And sometimes give stitches