The Older I Get

The Older I Get
by John McCutcheon & Tom Chapin
© 1996 Appalsongs & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

I had a '63 Chevy, dual carbs and a four on the floor.
A chopped 396, hear the hormones and the engines roar.
It was me and my buddies just a-cruising aroun’,
We were picking 'em up and we were shutting 'em down.
You know, we owned every back street in that little farm town.
Well we were young, we were lean, we were seventeen,
Living on the weekends and gasoline.
Every time I think about I still get a buzz,
The older I get, you know, the better I was,
The older I get, you know, the better I was.

I had a Fender Stratocaster and an amp turned up to ten.
We only knew three chords, but that was okay then.
Well the music was loud and the girls were hot,
A bone and bottle in the parking lot
Was the closest to the big time that we ever got.
Well we were young, we were lean, we were seventeen,
Living on Hendrix, the Stones, and Cream.
Every time I think about I still get a buzz.
The older I get, you know, the better I was,
The older I get, you know, the better I was.

Never felt so new, I never loved so true,
You were my only one.
A shooting star in the back of my car,
A total eclipse of the fun. F-f-f-f-f-un.

Now it's been twenty five years since we raced those cars in the streets
And the band was bitchin' now I dance to a different beat.
My high school girl is my twenty year bride,
I got a mini-van with the kids inside.
And I tell you, Tom, it's really been a long, strange ride
Since we were young, we were lean, we were seventeen,
Living in the fever of a young man’s dream.
Every time I think about I still get a buzz.
The older I get, you know, the better I was,
The older I get, you know, the better I was.
The older I get, you know, the better I was,
The older I get, you know, the better I was.
The older I get, you know, the better I was,
The older I get, you know, the better I was.
The older I get, you know, the better I was,
The older I get, you know, the better I was.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Doing Our Job CD.

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