Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Glory Days (Bruce Springsteen, 1985). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2023-10-29. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Glory Days," written by Bruce Springsteen, was Springsteen's 67th top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 rising to no. 5 in 1985 (Whitburn, 2013). According to Springsteen, "The first verse actually happened, the second verse mostly happened, the third verse, of course, is happening now" (songfacts, 2023). The song was about a chance encounter Springsteen had with an ex-high school classmate, Joe DePugh. "They played baseball together in the Babe Ruth League (ages 13-15). They were good friends, but drifted apart as Springsteen pursued music while DePugh took a shot at sports (he tried out for the Los Angeles Dodgers). In the summer of 1973, DePugh was walking in to a bar called the Headliner in Neptune, New Jersey while Springsteen was walking out. Bruce went back in, where he and his old friend talked about the good old days until the bar closed (K. Coyne, songfacts, 2023).

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Lyrics:

I had a friend was a big baseball player
Back in high school
He could throw that speed ball by you
Make you look like a fool boy

Saw him the other night at this roadside bar
I was walking in, he was walking out
We went back inside sat down had a few drinks
But all he kept talking about was

Glory days, well they'll pass you by
Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days

Well there's a girl that lives up the block
Back in school she could turn all the boy's heads
Sometimes on a Friday I'll stop by
And have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed

Her and her husband Bobby, well they split up
I guess it's two years gone by now
We just sit around talking about the old times,
She says when she feels like crying
She starts laughing thinking about

Glory days well they'll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days

I think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it
But I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of, well time slips away
And leaves you with nothing mister but
Boring stories of glory days

Glory days well they'll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days

Well they'll pass you by
Glory days in the wink of a young girl's eye
Glory days, glory days

Well alright oo yeah
Well alright come on now