I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school
He could throw that speedball by you,
make you look like a fool boy
Saw him the other night at this roadside bar,
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside, sat down, had a few drinks,
but all he kept talking about was
Glory days
Well they'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days
Well there's a girl that lives up the block,
back in school she could turn all the boys' heads
Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by and have a few drinks
after she put her kids to bed
Her and her husband Bobby, well, they split up,
I guess it's two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times,
she says when she feels like crying,
she starts laughing thinking about
Glory days
Yeah they'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days
My old man worked 20 years on the line
and they let him go
Now everywhere he goes out looking for work
they just tell him that he's too old
I was 9 years old when he was working
at the Metuchen Ford plant assembly line
Now he just sits on a stool down at the Legion Hall,
but I can tell what's on his mind
Glory days
Yeah goin' back, glory days
Oh he ain't never had, glory days
Glory days
Think I'm going down to the well tonight
and I'm gonna drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it,
but I probably will
Yeah just sitting back
trying to recapture a little of the glory of
Well but time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister
but boring stories of
Glory days
Yeah they'll pass you by, glory days
In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days
Glory days