When I go home this summer, I done made up my mind,
Gonna do some things I wish I'd done once upon a time.
Everybody in the whole place, they're gonna know my name,
I'll blow in like a hurricane then blow out just the same.

Paint scenes on the water-tower:
I got the paint an' I got the power.
Do everything I wish I'd done back then.
Better late than never, they say.
Can't let the moment slip away.
I'm gonna fin'lly take my chances,
When I go home again.
Whoo, hah.

Call old Frankie Walker an' ask him if he might,
Meet me at the drag strip an' he can eat my dust tonight.
I'm gonna look up Laura What's-her-name an' I'll fin'lly make it clear,
I studied every square inch of her legs, our junior year.

Paint scenes on the water-tower:
I got the paint an' I got the power.
Do everything I wish I'd done back then.
Better late than never, they say.
Can't let the moment slip away.
I'm gonna fin'lly take my chances,
When I go home again.
Whoo.

Instrumental break.

Everybody's got some things they wish they'd said or done,
An' I'm gonna do my best to do 'em, every one.

Gonna fin'lly tell my Mamma about that Friday night.
Didn't trip or fall: I got that shiner in a fight.
An' if I get my courage up, I might just spill the beans,
An' tell her all the details 'bout the night I turned eighteen.

Paint scenes on the water-tower:
I got the paint, I got the power.
Do everything I wish I'd done back then.
Better late than never, they say.
Can't let the moment slip away.
I'm gonna fin'lly take my chances,
When I go home again.
All right.

When I go home again.
Whoo, oh it's good to be back home.....again.