G
C
G
I grew up a child of the fifties
C
D7
Learned to dance to the beat of rock and roll
C
D7
G
C
Television was my friend I Love Lucy Rin Tin Tin
G
D7
G
Kissed my first girl when I was 10 years old
C
G
Took a turn for the worse in the sixties
C
D7
Saw some real people die on TV
C
D7
G
C
Learned love’s hard cold facts paid my first income tax
G
D7
G
One small step for the man I’m gonna be
C
G
I’ll never feel bad ’bout the times that we had
C
G
D7
I’ll never look back in regret
G
C
Am
The heaven you gave I will treasure and save
D7
G
Cause it might be as close as I get
C
G
The 70s were 10 years of reruns
C
D7
News of Watergate was nothing new
C
D7
G
C
The Democrats got in we fell in love again
G
D7
G
When Elvis died we all knew that we could too
C
G
Now I’m facing the most of the eighties
C
D7
Old enough to run for President
C
D7
G
C
It’s hard to think it’s me the father of three
G
D7
G
Oh America I don’t know where it went
C
Am
The heaven you gave I will treasure and save
D7
G
Cause it might be as close as I get
D7
C
Am
G
