Listening To Old Time Rock And Roll On A Late Night PBS Fundraiser

Old time rock n roll playing soft
in the tingling silver air
on this hot dusty summer night....

And I'm sitting in the schoolyard
with my friends in 1960,
just home from my first rock concert,
And I knew I'd never get enough....

And I'm sitting in a bar in Queens
in 1967 on the night I graduated high school,
drinking with my friends, a cheerleader
sitting in my lap....

And I'm sitting on a cliff over Seneca Lake
in 1971, my arm around Jill's shoulder.
The sun is going down,
and we hated to put our clothes back on....

And I'm walking through Central Park
on the morning after Halloween in 1975,
holding hands with Victoria,
all our questions answered the night before....

And I'm on Suzanne's back porch
on a cold night in 1980,
her hand so small in mine,
her eyes so happy....

And I'm sleeping on my sofa with Joyce in 1988,
a week before her 21st birthday,
her long black hair cascading
over my chest.

And I'm walking through Fort Tryon Park
with sweet Emily in 2006, long before
I knew she would be
the last true love of my life....

God bless old time rock n roll....