Intro: C F C F
C F
We were there in the back seat 'cause we couldn't go home
C F
We were too young to pay the rent
C F
I was working on the mechanics of the cross-your-heart bra
C F
LBJ was the president
G Am
My pal Travis asked me the next day he said,
G Am
"Was it hard to score?"
G Am
I lied to him and said, "It was a snap!"
F G
And we laughed as we walked out the door
C F
We were rebels without a clue
C F
Didn't know where to go or what to do
C G Am
And the whole generation was feeling it too
G C F C F
We were rebels without a clue
C F
Buddy Holly was gone and we drank all night long
C F
And listened to his songs
C F
Where do you go in the summer of your junior year
C F
To learn the difference between right and wrong?
G Am
Me and the boys just wanted some girls
G Am
But we were scared to try a little tenderness
G Am
So we souped up our cars and fought in the bars
F G
Like that was gonna get us kissed
Chorus-at end, instead of F C F, play a quicker
change of C F and into following verse
G C C F G C C F
Now we got station wagon, now we got kids
G Am F G
Still we have no idea why we did what we did
C F
Now we laugh at the predjudicism and we laugh at the punks
C F
And the business men who have fried
C F
And we go around bettin' things would've been a lot different
C F
If James Dean and Elvis hadn't died
G Am
Travis called me up the other day he said,
G Am
"Remember that summer at the lake,
G Am
Where we broke every rule, said the hell with school
F G
'Cause we had had all we could take?"
Chorus
Repeat and fade