Bob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Jimmy Iovine

[Intro]
Oh yeah, huh

[Verse 1]
Well, the big line moved one mile an hour
So loud it really hurt
The big line moved so loud
It really hurt
Back in '55
We were makin' Thunderbirds

[Verse 2]
We filled conveyors
We met production
Foremen didn't waste words
We met production
Foremen didn't waste words
We were young and proud
We were makin' Thunderbirds

[Chorus]
Well, we were makin' Thunderbirds
We were makin' Thunderbirds
They were long and low and sleek and fast
They were all you've ever heard
Back in '55
We were makin' Thunderbirds
Oh

[Piano Solo]
Oh
Ooh
Oh

[Saxophone Solo]
Oh
Ooh
Oh yeah

[Verse 3]
Oh, now the years have flown and the plants have changed
And you're lucky if you work
The big line moves but you're lucky if you work
Back in '55
We were makin' Thunderbirds

[Chorus]
Well, we were makin' Thunderbirds
We were makin' Thunderbirds
They were long and low and sleek and fast
They were classic in a word
Back in '55
We were makin' Thunderbirds
We were young and proud
We were makin' Thunderbirds
We were young and sure
We were makin' Thunderbirds

[Outro]
Oh, oh

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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