A firefly glowing on my left hand   Used to pretend it was a wedding band   A tall cool glass of Mama's lemonade   Sold from a stand that me and my sister made   We'd count our quarters in the shade underneath the trees      The boys in the clubhouse are right next door   Playing cops and robbers and the Civil War   We'd all meet up at the swimming hole   With marshmallow sticks and our homemade fishing poles   And the stars would guide us home, oh, those sweet memories      Well, I love those summer days   Drifting on by like a slow parade   And everything feels fine in the warm sunshine   When your world unwinds      And you kick back in your flip-flops   And you don't care about the tick-tock   And the world is full of music, dreams and lovers      There ain't nothin' like the summer   There ain't nothin' like the summer      A blue eyed boy with the baseball tan   On the ferris wheel he takes my hand   Long, slow dance underneath the moon   Praying so hard that the night won't end too soon   He whispers, I love you and I melt into his arms      Well, I love those summer days   Drifting on by like a slow parade   And everything feels fine in the warm sunshine   When your world unwinds      And you kick back in your flip-flops   And you don't care about the tick-tock   And the world is full of music, dreams and lovers      There ain't nothin' like the summer   There ain't nothin' like the summer      The sun goes down and the barbecue's lit   The radio's playing that summer hit   We all wish these days would last forever      I love those summer days   Drifting on by like a slow parade   And everything feels fine in the warm sunshine   When your world unwinds      And you kick back in your flip-flops   And you don't care about the tick-tock   And the world is full of music, dreams and lovers      There ain't nothin' like the summer   (I love those summer days)   There ain't nothin' like the summer   (I love those summer days)      Ooh, I love those summer days, ooh