Jerry Jeff Walker: Those were the days

We were wild and young and willing, to give up anything it took To get to where we were going, you could read us like a book Our nights were hot, filled with a lot, of lovers and dreams and songs And mornings mostly found us in places we did not belong But those were the days (those were the days) Man those were the days (those were the days) We listened to the songs Bob Dylan wrote We sat there stoned and amazed We forgot to eat, we forgot to sleep Searching for the perfect line So here's to the good old days, baby, one more time I remember Jimmy saying, if he had two blues and a beer He might get some sleep tonight, give his head a chance to clear I reminded him of an old girlfriend singing at a bar called Slim's And I recall him doing lot's of things that night, But sleeping wasn't one of them But those were the days (those were the days) Man those were the days (those were the days) We learned all the songs the Beatles sang We even tried Purple Haze We forgot to eat, we forgot to sleep Searching for the perfect rhyme So here's to the good old days, baby, one more time We were wild and young and willing, we are still are in some ways Every now and then we still have one of them good old days And it makes me proud when I think out loud About lovers and dreams and songs And how it always kept me going and the best ones are never gone But those were the days (those were the days) Man those were the days (those were the days) We learned all the songs by Hank and Lefty There must have been a thousand ways We forgot to eat, we forgot to sleep And all but the very best lines And even a few of those from time to time But those were the days (those were the days) Man those were the days (those were the days) So here's to the good old days, baby, one more time