Summer of Drugs - Victoria Williams

Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the woods behind the house

Nobody was home so I grabbed her foot and sucked that poison out

Sister got better in a month or so when the swelling it went down

And I’d started off my teenage years with poison in my mouth

Oh, we were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

Learned from the teens of the late-70s in the summer of the drugs

Mamas and daddies could never understand that life was never dull

Their idea of a rollicking time was a kitchen taffy pull

Acid, grass, downs and speed, junk those days were made of

How could they suspect those kids were monsters beneath their makeup

Wow, they were too young to be hippies

Missed out on the love

Learned from the teens of the late-70s in the summer of the drugs

To boys and girls in every town

The sandman spread his sand around

Now we are just waking up

From a summer of drugs

Uh uh huh, uh uh huh

Uh uh huh, uh uh huh

Uh uh huh, uh uh hah

Mamas and daddies' too shy to talk about those birds and bees

And the integrated schools had stopped, the facts of life were these

Girls and boys went away, came back empty after a weekend

And talk on telephones consisted of hushed voices speaking

Wow, they were too young

Was it too much?

Too thin

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

Huh huh-huh huh-hu

Uh uh huh, uh uh huh

Uh uh huh, uh uh hah

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah