Bob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Punch Andrews Bob Seger

[Intro]
Ho, huh, yeah
Alright alright

[Verse 1]
Been out in Norfolk, hung on a short choke
Livin' with a bottle of wine
The music ladies and burned out babies
I was tryin' to write a couple of lines
Sheriff Gribbs in his grim ad libs
Spoutin' about the crime in the street
And women were screamin' and some was dreamin'
'Bout the crimes between the sheets

[Chorus]
You know that music died
Hurt my pride
But somehow I pulled through
Back in '72
Oh, oh yeah

[Verse 2]
Somehow we made it to Baton Rouge
We stayed inside for a week
We weren't in time for no Mardi Gras
So we decided to sleep
Houston, yes, was a good old guest
Lord knows how bad we wanted to play
But we got homesick for Lincoln Park, imagine
And man we just couldn't stay

[Chorus]
Tricky Dick
He played it slick
Something I's afraid he'd do
Back in '72
Oh, '72, oh, oh, woah

[Sax Solo]
Come on
Alright alright
Oh, oh yeah

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
Then all our nouveau philosophers
Our windows for the world
Pessimistic pseudo-intellectual
Avant-garde-ish pearls
Takin' notes on the Holocaust
They're copying 'em down on their sleeve
It was so hip to be negative
So square to try and believe

[Chorus]
When the waters cleared
It was what we feared
We learned nothin' new
Back in '72

[Outro]
Oh '72
'72 Lord
Back in '72
Back in '72
Oh, back in '72
Oh, back in '72
Oh, back in '72
Oh, '72
Oh, back in '72
Come on, come on, come on
Back in '72 (Oh)
Hey

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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