Summer of Drugs

Sister got bit by a copperhead snake

In the woods behind the house

And nobody was home so I grabbed her foot

And I sucked that poison out

Sister got better in a month or two

When the swelling, it went down

But I'd started off my teenage years

With a poison in my mouth

And we were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

Turned to a teen in the late seventies

In the summer of the drugs

Mama and daddy could never understand

Their life was never dull

Their idea of a rollicking time

Was a kitchen tap appall

Acid, grass, downs, and speed

Junk those days were made of

How could they suspect those kids

Where the monsters meet their makers

And they were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

They learned from the teens in the late seventies

In the summer of the drugs

Boys and girls in every town

Sandman spread his sand around

Now we are just waking up

From a summer of drugs

Hey-hey-hey

Woah-woah-woah

A-ha-ha

Yeah-yeah-yeah

Uh-huh

Mommies and daddies were too shy to talk

About those birds and bees

Integrated schools had stopped

The facts of life were these

Girls and boys went away and came back

Empty after the weekend

The talk on the phone consisted of

Hushed voices speaking

And they were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

Learned from the teens of the late seventies

In the summer of the drugs

They were too young

And they were too fast

Oh, the summer of drugs

Hey-hey-hey

Woah-woah-woah

A-ha-ha

Yeah-yeah-yeah

Uh-huh (×2)