Up every morning at the crack of dawn Nights as short as the days are long Life turned out to be another magazine I'm livin' with a stranger now The girl I knew got away somehow She went out with two bit gasoline I wanna go back, you know what I mean
[Chorus:] When the word was Thunderbird And the price was forty twice Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun Now but love turned out to be a passin' thing Different bird of a different wing Some damn fool put a dollar twenty-nine On a jug of Thunderbird wine And Lord I don't know if I'm gonna make it I don't know if I'll have the strength to take it Everything's hung up in yesterday
Married to a civic-minded social girl Takin' shortcuts in a woman's world She won't let her hair down when I'm home Society is just slavery And security is killing me I worked hard for it, but I give it all away If I could go back to yesterday
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When the word was Thunderbird And the price was forty twice Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun