Lyrics

In the year of '55 when I was born a child I felt the Lord settle on my shoulder Now through those childish days He would guide my guideless ways For I was young and I was sober And in the year of '65, a troubled life and troubled times And the Lord, was standin' at my shoulder And I wished that life was other but that I could be another But I was me and I was young and sober And in the year of '75 is when I sang myself alive And the Lord sat whistling on my shoulder So I stood up and I sang, and that's when my life began And I was young and sober And in the year of '85 we watched the millions starve and die And the Lord, perched like the vulture on my shoulder So we sent some bread and water, tried our best to stop the slaughter And we were young and sober But in the year of '95, I loved my faithless wife And the devil must have muttered on her shoulder So she left me for another, whom I'd once had thought my brother And I grew drunk and older Said in the year of '05 with a beautiful new wife And the Lord, just sat there smiling on her shoulders So we drank from lifers cup, watched the children growin' up 'Cause she had made me once again young and sober For I was young and sober