I had a friend was a big baseball player    back in high school    He could throw that speedball by you    Make you look like a fool boy    Saw him the other night at this roadside bar    I was walking in, he was walking out    We went back inside sat down had a few drinks    but all he kept talking about was       Glory days well they'll pass you by    Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye    Glory days, glory days       Well there's a girl that lives up the block    back in school she could turn all the boy's heads    Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by    and have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed    Her and her husband Bobby well they split up    I guess it's two years gone by now    We just sit around talking about the old times,    she says when she feels like crying    she starts laughing thinking about       Glory days well they'll pass you by    Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye    Glory days, glory days       My old man worked 20 years on the line    and they let him go    Now everywhere he goes out looking for work    they just tell him that he's too old    I was 9 nine years old and he was working at the    Metuchen Ford plant assembly line    Now he just sits on a stool down at the Legion hall    but I can tell what's on his mind       Glory days yeah goin back    Glory days aw he ain't never had    Glory days, glory days       Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight    and I'm going to drink till I get my fill    And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it    but I probably will    Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture    a little of the glory of, well time slips away    and leaves you with nothing mister but    boring stories of glory days       Glory days well they'll pass you by    Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye    Glory days, glory days       Glory days well they'll pass you by    Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye    Glory days, glory days