Sixteen

I had turned sixteen growin' bored with life caught in between

The things that I was doin', and what I'd never done before

Those days were pretty much all the same

Drinkin' beer and draggin' main, hopin' somethin' soon would change

Before I went out of my gourd

I thought she had been around, she's about the age that I am now

Had moved away from town and come home divorced with a child

She had hired me on to do the things that no one ther would care to

At a ranch where rich folks paid to act like cowboys for awhile

We would stay up late and show them folks their bought and paid for

Authentic country western Texas honky tonk good time

One night when everyone was gone she played her favorite Elton John song

And looked at me a way I thought she'd surely lost her mind

C H O R U S:

But I was almost grown and she was often left alone to think about whatever women do

And it was nearly right but not near enough to bring to light,

But where you wonder who was usin' who

We would sneak around, all across that little town

And did our best to hide the secret we hoped everybody knew

I guess she made me a man, at least the first time when I thought I was one

Not necessarily within the law, still somethin' sure seemed true

I don't know the reason wasted youth or football season

Something makes me think about her more now than I think I did back then

Right before I had left town I had quit coming around

She called to say goodbye, I could hear her cry and I didn't even care