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Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the woods behind the house
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And nobody was home so I grabbed her foot and I sucked that poison out
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Sister got better in a month or two when the swelling it went down
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But I started off my teenage years with a poison in my mouth
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And we were too young to be hippies missed out on love
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Return to our teen in the late seventies in a summer of the drugs
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Mommy and Daddy could never understand that life was never cold
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Their idea of a rollicking town was a kitchen tap appall
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Acid, grass, downs and speed, junked us days were made of
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How could they suspect those kids where the monsters eat their makers
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And they were too young to be hippies missed out on love
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We learned from the teens of the late seventies in a
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Summer of the drugs
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Boys and girls in every town
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Sandman spread his sand around
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Now we are just waking up from a summer of drugs
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Hey hey (hey hey), woh woh (woh woh), uh-huh (uh-huh)
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Hey yeah (hey yeah), hey hey (hey hey), woh woh (woh woh)
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Oh yeah yeah yeah
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Mommies and Daddies are too shy to talk about those birds and bees
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Integrated schools had stopped, facts of life please
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Girls and boys went away came back, empty after weekend
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The talk on the phone consisted of a hush, voices speaking
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And they were too young to be hippies missed out on love
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Return to our teen in the late seventies in a summer of the drugs
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And they were too young (too young)
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And they were too fast (too fast)
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Oh, the summer of drugs
