The Boy I Used To Be

When I was a little boy I lived in a little town

West of the Mississippi near the Maramec iron ground

There was a Pabst Blue Ribbon sign and a Western Auto store

And the SLSF railway but that don't run through there no more

It was a simple small town life where boys are brought up to dream

Of scoring touchdowns on Friday night for the high school football team

We'd go swimming in the river, fishing down by the creek

We see more out here in a year than them city boys do all week

But my family we did not live there long we left in 1983

But now I know there was so much more to see