Days of Graduation Songtext
von Drive‐By Truckers

Bobby went out for a joyride with my best girl
Left me at the party
It was almost June and the three-quarter moon illuminated
The rain-soaked streets like a candy wrapper
I guess that′s why Bobby had his lights off
Tear-assing through them backstreets of town
Where me and Bobby tear-assed so many times before
Sometimes with my best girl
Sometimes Bobby had him one too


But this night he banked that curve
Just a little too hard and that 442 went airborne
Hit a telephone pole and split in two
Bobby's skull was split right in two
And my girl was pinned in her seat, partially embedded in the dashboard
And for the next 20 minutes the only sound in the night were the sounds of her screams
And the sound of the wheels still spinning

In a little while the ambulance came
And the sound of its Siren
Mixed with the screaming girl and the spinning wheel

But when the story was told
The next day at the graduation ceremony
Everyone said that when the paramedics got there
They could hear free bird playing on the stereo
You know it′s a very, very long song