I work a forty hour week and I earn my keep
And I try to walk proud and tall
I keep my nose to the ground, I don’t get behind
And I don’t back up at all
Well my necks a little red, my collars blue
I sip a little coffee, and I drink a little booze

Cause I’m an all american country boy
I’m my daddy’s spittin image and my mamas pride and joy
There ain’t nothing down home that I really don’t enjoy
Cause I’m an all american country boy

I drive a pickup truck and I don’t pass the buck
And I always speak my mind
I’m hooked on t.v., rolaids, and b.c.s
And I know how to have a good time
I’m a little bit rowdy and a little bit tame
Ain’t no way I’m ever gonna change

Cause I’m an all american country boy
I’m my daddy’s spittin image and my mamas pride and joy
There ain’t nothing down home that I really don’t enjoy
Cause I’m an all american country boy

Well I must admit that I’ve mellowed a bit
Father time can slow you down
I’m still doin all I used to do
It just takes a little longer now

Cause I’m an all american country boy
I’m my daddy’s spittin image and my mamas pride and joy
There ain’t nothing down home that I really don’t enjoy
Cause I’m an all american country boy

I’m just a country boy
A good ol country boy

I’m usually strong
Keep love all away
Wall around my heart
So it won’t have to brave
But you take me some place that I’ve never been
Now I don’t know if I’ll find my way back again

[chorus:]
Cause you’ve got me right where I want you
And there’s not a thing I can’t do
Completely consume all about you*
You’ve got me right where I want you

I close my eyes you’re looking at me
You wake me at night walking round in my dreams
Windows are smell of roses in blue
And all I can think of is last night’s perfume

[chorus]

And I’ve never thought that I would get caught
But here I am wrapped up in you

[chorus]
You’ve got me right where,
You’ve got me right where,
You’ve got me right where I want you.

Rockie burned up the movie screen and I was turnin seventeen
Tie-dyed shirts and Levis jean, lookin cool at the Dairy Queen
Tryin to impress a young woman in her Sunday dress

And that was 1976, didnt know who I was yet
A pretty little blonde haired girl stole my heart and changed my world
Two kids and a moonlit sky, a little love on a Friday night
Built a fire that just wont quit, that was 1976

My high school days I packed away, set my sights on a bigger stage
Jimmy Carter moved to DC, a Georgia boy just like me, life seemed easy
Nothin much that we needed

That was 1976, didnt know who I was yet
A pretty little blonde haired girl stole my heart and changed my world
Two kids and a moonlit sky, a little love on a Friday night
Built a fire that just wont quit, that was 1976

[Instrumental Interlude]

Eight track tapes were still in style and Elvis was still alive
Wonder Woman sure looked fine, Bionic Man was still Prime Time
And that girl I liked, we kept on tryin till we got it right

And that was 1976, didnt know who I was yet
A pretty little blonde haired girl stole my heart and changed my world
Two kids and a moonlit sky, a little love on a Friday night
Built a fire that just wont quit, that was 1976

Yeah, that was 1976, didnt know who we were yet
Built a fire that just wont quit and that was 1976

We built a fire that just wont quit, that was 1976

Tonight it doesn’t feel like it did last night
I’m feeling warm if inside
Since I saw your face
Since I looked in your eyes
There’s a change in this place
I think the love factor’s high

[Chorus:]
When the love factor’s high
And too hard to collide
You don’t even try
That’s when you’ll find
One that feels right
One for all time
It’s hard to deny
When the love factor’s high

Sometimes it flies and sometimes it falls
Sometimes you beg
Ends up against the wall
As I hold you close
We dance in time
But I think I know the love factor’s high

[Chorus]

It’s hard to deny
When the love factor’s high

It happens everytime I think about the reasons why I sittin here alone at night at night and not with you
The heartache takes control and lets me know just what a fool I was and how you cant erase the things you do
And sorry just cant mend the broken heart Ive handed you, break apart is what most broken hearts tell you to do

But Im a long, long way from over you, dont think Ive ever seen so many shades of blue
They say that time will heal, dont know if I ever will cause Im a long, long way from over you

[Instrumental Interlude]

Now over you just sounds like some lost city, people tell me how to find but somehow I just never do

And maybe its because I never wanted to at all of course now I see that I had the best in you
That clock just runs in circles, the days just go on by, the memories hold me closer no matter how I cry

Im still a long, long way from over you, dont think Ive ever seen so many shades of blue
They say that time will heal, dont know if I ever will cause Im a long, long way from over you

[Instrumental Interlude]

That clock just runs in circles, the days just go on by, the memories hold me closer no matter how I cry

Im still a long, long way from over you, dont think Ive ever seen so many shades of blue
They say that time will heal, dont know if I ever will cause Im a long, long way from over you

[Instrumental Interlude]

They say that time will heal, dont know if I ever will cause Im a long, long way from over you