Drive-By Truckers - Days of Graduation lyrics

Bobby went out for a joy
Ride with my best girl left me at the party
He was my best friend and I miss him
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 the back part of
Town and those deserted country
Roads where me and Bobby tear-assed
So many times before
Sometimes with my best girl, and 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 twenty minutes
The only sound in the night were her screams
And the sound of the wheel still spinning
In a little while
The ambulance came and the sound
Of it's siren mixed with
The sound of 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 ambulance came
The paramedics could hear "Free Bird"
Still playing on the stereo

You know, it's a very long song