That Summer
The Statler Brothers

It was the same summer I learned to play
'It Had To Be You' on the piano
The same summer we jumped the fence at the fair
And you won in two throws the pink dog I tried all night to win

There's a storehouse of song titles
I can recite from that summer
I hear one every now and then
It seems I'm always driving when I hear one

I turn the radio up and blank my mind
And let it drift, it's a good thing
I never hear more than one at a time
Or I don't think I could see to drive

I see pictures taken that summer
Every time I give my personal belongings
Their annual cleaning out
Remember the one that was taken
In your back yard the evening of graduation?

You wrote on the back, you wrote
Well you know what you wrote
Or maybe you don't but I do

I still go to the same theater we went to that summer
I always sit about tenth from the back on the right
You always got a headache if we sat any closer
And had to squint if we sat any farther back

You were a lot of trouble to me
Of course I see the same people
We saw that summer
None of them ever mention you

I guess they don't know
I still remember you like I do
Or maybe they do know
I still remember you like I do
Maybe that's why they don't mention you

And the places, the places are still there
Although most of them have changed
That narrow bumpy dirt road up to the knoll
Where we used to park has been paved
And a new housing development has gone in

Houses, cars, and people have invaded our place
Where your innocence became my guilt
People live daily as if nothing has ever happened
On that piece of ground

I've learned other songs on the piano
The fair doesn't come anymore
Until late September
And those songs make me
Sad now instead of happy

The pictures have gotten bent
And corners broken off
They've put on a new wide screen
And swinging chairs in the theater

The people have grown older
And the knoll is a pool of lights after dark
But the summers are still hot and that's the
'Bout the only thing that hasn't changed
Except that I still love you


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  'Do You Know You Are My Sunshine   'Til The Storm Passes By   1953 Dear John Honky Tonk Blues   A Beautiful Life   All I Can Do   All I Have to Offer You Is Me   All I'll Need From You   All-Girl-All-Gospel Quartet   Almost Persuaded   Amazing Grace   Are You Washed In The Blood   Atlanta Blue   Atlanta Blues   Autumn Leaves   Away in a Manger   Away in a Manger [*]   Baptism of Jesse Taylor   Beat the Devil   Bed Of Rose's   Bed Of Rose's (1970)   Bed Of Rose's   Bed Of Roses   Best I Know How   Billy Christian   Blackwood Brothers   Blackwood Brothers By The Statler Brothers   Blessed Be   Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain   Burning Bridges   Carry Me Back   Charlotte's Web   Charlotte's Web   Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy   Chet You're The Reason   Chet You're The Reason   Child of the Fifties   Christmas to Me   City Lights   Class of '57   Class Of '57 (1972)   Class Of '57   Count on Me   Couple More Years   Cowboy Buckaroo   Daddy   Daddy Sang Bass   Darlin' I Do   Delta Dawn   Different Song   Do You Know You Are My Sunshine   Do You Know You Are My Sunshine (1978)   Do You Know You Are My Sunshine?   Do You Remember These   Do You Remember These?   Don't Wait On Me   Don't Wait On Me   Dream On   Elizabeth   Elizabeth (1984)   Eve   Every Day Will Be Sunday Bye and Bye   Everyday Will Be Sunday (By And By)   Everything You See in Your Dreams   Faded Love   Fallin' In Love   Feeling Mighty Fine   Fifteen Years Ago   Flowers On The Wall   Flowers on the Wall [#]   Flowers on the Wall [DVD]   Flowers on the Wall [From Pulp Fiction]   Foggy Mountain Breakdown [Instrumental]   Forever   Fourth Man   Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings   Got Leavin' On Her Mind   Green Green Grass Of Home   Guilty   Hat and Boots   Have a Little Faith   He's Always There For You   He'll Always Have You Again   Hello Mary Lou   His Eye Is On The Sparrow   How Great Thou Art   How Great Thou Art [#]   How To Be A Country Star   How To Be A Country Star (1979)   I Believe I'll Live For Him   I Believe in Music   I Believe In Santa's Cause   I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)   I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love Wi...   I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know About Her   I Never Shall Forget The Day   I Never Spend a Christmas That I Don't Think of Yo...   I Never Spend A Christmas That I Don't Think ...   I Shall Not Be Moved   I Still Miss Someone   I Want to Carry Your Sweet Memories   I Was There   I Wish I Could Be   I Wonder How the Old Folks Are at Home   I'll Be the One   I'll Even Love You Better (Than I Did Then)   I'll Go To My Grave Loving You   I'll Go To My Grave Loving You (1975)   I'll Have A New Life   I'll Take Care Of You   I'm Dyin' A Little Each Day   I'm Feeling Fine   I'd Rather Be Sorry   I'll Be Your Baby Tonight   I'll Even Love You Better (Than I Did Then)   I'll Go To My Grave Loving You   I'll Take Care Of You   I'm Sorry You Had To Be The One   I've Got Jesus On My Side   I've Had A Good Time   If It Makes Any Difference   If We Never Had   In Love With You   In the Beginning   Is It Your Place or Mine   It Only Hurts for a Little While   It's Too Late For Roses   Jesus Hold My Hand   Jesus Is the Answer Everytime   Jesus Take Another Look At Me   Jingle Bells   Junkie's Prayer   Junkie's Prayer   Just a Little Talk With Jesus   Just Someone I Used to Know   Kate And Edith Too (1967)   Keep On The Firing Line   King of Love   King Of The Road   Leaning On The Everlasting Arms   Led Out Of Bondage   Left Handed Woman   Less of Me   Let It Show   Life's Railway To Heaven   Little Is Much When God Is In It   Look at Me   Lord I'm Coming Home   Lord Is It I?   Love Lifted Me   Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn   Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn   Me and Bobby McGee   Memories Are Made of This   Memphis Tennessee   Moments to Remember   Monday Morning Secretary   More Like My Daddy Than Me   More Than a Name on a Wall   Movies   My Darling Hildegard   My Only Love   My Past Is Looking Brighter (All the Time)   My Reward   Neighborhood Girl   Never Ending Song of Love   New York City   No One Will Ever Know   Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord   Nobody Else   Nobody's Darlin' But Mine   Official Historian Of Shirley Jean Berrell (1979)   Official Historian on Shirley Jean Berell   Oh Baby Mine (1983)   Oh Baby Mine (I Get So Lonely)   Oh, Happy Day   One Size Fits All   One Takes the Blame   Other Side Of The Cross   Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior   Pictures   Precious Memories   Quite A Long Long Time   Release Me (And Let Me Love Again)   Remembering You   Right One   Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town   Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town   Ruthless   Samson   Santa Claus Is Coming to Town   Saturday Morning Radio Show   Second Thoughts   She Thinks I Still Care   Shenandoah   Silver Medals and Sweet Memories   Since Jesus Came Into My Heart   Since Then   Small Small World   Some I Wrote   Somebody New Will Be Coming Along   Something You Can't Buy   Something You Can't Buy   Somewhere in the Night   Song of David   Song of Solomon   Special Song For Wanda   Strand   Stranger in My Place   Streets Of Baltimore   Streets of Baltimore [*]   Streets of San Francisco   Susan When She Tried   Sweet By and By   Sweet Charlotte Ann   Sweeter & Sweeter   Take Good Care Of Her   Take Me Home Country Roads   Tender Years   Thank God I've Get You   Thank You World   That Haunted Old House   The Best I Know How   The Brave Apostles Twelve   The Dreamer   The Eastern Gate   The Great Pretender   The Kid's Last Fight   The King Is Coming   The Kingdom of Heaven Is at Hand   The Movies   The Official Historian on Shirley Jean Berrell   The Other Side Of The Cross   The Right One   The Teacher   The Whiffenpoof Song   There Goes My Everything   There Is Power in the Blood   There's a Man in Here   There's A Man In Here   They Can't Get You Out Of Me   Things   This Ole House   This Part Of The World   This World Is Not My Home   Tomorrow Never Comes   Tomorrow Never Comes [Live]   Too Long Ago   Too Many Rivers   Too Much on My Heart   Turn Your Radio On   Under It All   Walkin' In The Sunshine   We   We Got Paid by Cash   We Got Paid by Cash [DVD]   We Owe It All to Yesterday   We'll Soon Be Done With Troubles And Trials   What A Friend We Have In Jesus   What Do I Care   What We Love to Do   Whatever happened to Randolph Scott   Whatever Happened To Randolph Scott (1974)   When I Stop Dreaming   When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again   When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder   When You And I Were Young Maggie   Whiffenpoof Song   Whispering Hope   Who Am I to Say   Who Do You Think?   Whose Birthday Is Christmas?   Whose Birthday Is Christmas? [*]   Woman Without a Home   Wonderful Words Of Life   Years Ago   You Can't Go home Again   You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too   You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith, Too   You Can't Go Home   You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too   You Comb Her Hair   You Comb Her Hair Every Morning   You Could Be Coming to Me   You Don't Wear Blue So Well   You Just Haven't Done It Yet   You'll Be Back (Every Night In My Dreams)   You've Been Like A Mother To Me   You'll Be Back (Every Night In My Dreams)   You've Been Like A Mother To Me

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