Y'all should have seen me  When I was sixteen years old  Had my hair hangin' free down my back  It used to shine in the sun like gold.    Went eight years of grade school  Four years of high school  I was never sick one day  And the kids that were with you in the first grade  Were with you all the way    We'd go over to Augusta for a ball game  We'd all go down to Daytona for the race  We'd go over to the drive-in every Friday  Shining in the sun like gold    Some cold winter morning, outside the school  And the bell hadn't rung just yet  We stand outside the gate, smoke a cigarette  Brushin' the snow off our clothes, and lean against the wall  Shining    And there wasn't no baby cryin'  And there wasn't no laundry waitin' for me on the line  If I didn't want to be alone, I didn't have to be alone  All I had to do was shine  Shining  Shining    Lord there must be something better  Lord it just don't seem right  To cook the same breakfast for the same man every morning  Sleep with the same man every night  For the rest of my life  For the rest of my life