oh the memories, they come a-streamin'   when I'm walkin' 'round here dreamin'   on a summer's night on hammer hill      oh, it's hard to stay with the subject   when you think of something so perfect   as a summer's night on hammer hill      I had a friend who was slightly overweight   that means fatass in the seventh grade   I still remember the steamy dressing room   where they beat him black and blue   yeah, they beat him black and blue      oh, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty   an open window, someone's playing "Tutti Frutti"   it's a summer's night on hammer hill      I had a friend, a girl who looked sort of like a guy   I can't forget her dark painful eyes   and they burned her with a cigarette lighter   when the cops came they had to untie her   another girl was free to grow up a cynical writer      oh, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty   an open window, someone's playing "Tutti Frutti"   it's a sweet summer's night on hammer hill      I wanna die right here   on a sweet summer's night on hammer hill