41 ContributorsGlory Days Lyrics

The first verse actually happened. The second verse mostly happened, and the third verse, of course, is happening now.

– Bruce Springsteen, Greatest Hits liner notes

The song was written initially as a… Read More 

[Intro]

Oh yeah

C'mon

Wooh

Huh

[Verse 1]

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

[Chorus]

Glory days

Well, they'll pass you by, glory days

In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days

Glory days (Alright)

[Verse 2]

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 'bout

[Chorus]

Glory days

Yeah, they'll pass you by, glory days

In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days

Glory days (Rock it now)

[Missing Verse]

My old man worked twenty 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 nine-years old and 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

[Missing Chorus]

Glory days

Yeah, goin' back, glory days

Aw, he ain't never had glory days

Glory days

[Verse 3]

I 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, yeah

Well, time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister

But boring stories of

[Chorus]

Glory days

Yeah, they'll pass you by, glory days

In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days

Glory days

[Chorus]

Glory days

Yeah, they'll pass you by, glory days

In the wink of a young girl's eye, glory days

Glory days

[Outro]

Well, alright, ooh yeah

Well, alright, (Alright) come on now (oh, yeah)

Well, alright (Alright), ooh yeah (oh, yeah)

Alright, (Alright) come on now (oh, yeah)

Wooh, yeah (Alright), wooh yeah (oh yeah)

Wooh, yeah (Ooh)

Alright boys, keep a-rockin' now

Keep on goin'

We're gonna go home now

Bring it home, yeah

Bring it home, oh oh

Alright, well alright

Well, alright, well alright

Well, alright, well alright

Alright, alright

Let's go

Woo