Intro: E

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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
E      B      E
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)
   E    B    A
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

Chorus:
              A               E       A             E
And they were too young to be hippies missed out on love
  A                       E                   E      B      E
Return to our teen in the late seventies in a summer of the drugs

              A          E
And they were too young (too young)
              A         E
And they were too fast (too fast)
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    Oh, the summer of drugs

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