I met you when we were young… it seemed like the world had just begun

Now it’s 30 years ago… I wonder how your life has really run

Never met your children… never seen your home

Girl I don’t know anything about you now…

 

but I knew ya… yes I knew ya… in ‘79

 

I remember meeting at the old school gates… I tried not to hesitate… 

We were so innocent & young… how times have changed where we now… 

Getting the 410 bus… pretending we’d done that stuff

Girl I don’t know anything about you now…

 

but I really knew ya… yes I knew ya… really knew ya… in ‘79

In nineteen-seventy-nine… nineteen-seventy-nine…

It was a good year… the best of its time…

 

Now the next generation has come… guess they beat to the same drum

I know life can be so rough… hope he’s given you enough

And of it’s really been too tough… I’m sorry I was just too young

Girl I don’t know anything about you now…

 

but I really knew ya… yes I knew ya… really knew ya… in ‘79

In nineteen-seventy-nine… nineteen-seventy-nine…

It was a good year… the best of its time…

 

Ohhh… 1979…