75 Septembers-D.C. Anderson

[ti:75 Septembers] [ar:D.C. Anderson] [al:The Box Under The Bed] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]75 Septembers - D.C. Anderson [00:03.23]In the year of the yellow cab [00:12.33]Shadow of the great world war [00:15.99]The third kid grandmom had [00:20.37]Came into this world [00:23.49]On a rolling farm in Maryland [00:27.62]When Wilson was the president [00:31.53]As summer blew her goodbye through the trees [00:38.37]A child of changing times [00:43.89]Growing up between the wars [00:47.75]Fords rolled off the lines [00:51.83]And bars all closed their doors [00:55.79]And I imagine you back then [00:59.68]With snap brim hat and farmer's tan [01:04.49]Where horses drew their wagons through the fields [01:09.03]Now the fields are all four lanes [01:14.99]And the moon's not just a name [01:19.14]Are you more amazed at how things change [01:23.52]Or how they stay the same [01:26.43]And do you sit here on this porch and wonder [01:31.16]How the time flies by [01:34.90]Or does it seem to barely creep along [01:42.39]With 75 Septembers come and gone [01:50.07]Were the fields all gold and fawn [01:55.83]Was the spring house dark and cool [01:59.82]Did the rooster crow at dawn [02:03.33]When they got you up for school [02:06.77]And would you tell me once again [02:11.26]The tales of granddad's hired men [02:14.82]And how they drove the old dirt road to town [02:22.31]Cause now the fields are all four lanes [02:26.61]And the moon's not just a name [02:30.38]Are you more amazed at how things change [02:35.36]Or how they stay the same [02:38.16]And do you sit here on this porch and wonder [02:43.16]How the times flies by [02:47.26]Or does it seem to barely creep along [02:54.95]With 75 Septembers come and gone [03:02.36]In the year of the yellow cab [03:11.72]Shadow of the great world war