I went down to the hardware store Had a young boy help me load a 4x4 I ask him about his life Why you workin’ all these dateless nights And he said: Working hard just to earn a buck Sweatin’ every summer but I'm savin’ up There’s a truck I need to buy And a girl that needs a ride I just smile and said I know what you mean I drove away and thought If that ain’t me at seventeen Of chasin’ girls around with a fake ID And never backed down with some old SOB On Friday nights he'll get thrown out of Center Street Because Saturdays he’s up in a tree Tryin’ to drop a buck like his daddy On Sundays his mama’s tryin’ Get ‘em praying on his knees To break some hearts, break some laws Get some scars everybody can see If he’s like me at seventeen Skippin’ class just to toss a line Smokin’ grass for the first time And catchin’ nothin’ but a good time My own momma tried Of chasin’ girls around with a fake ID And never backed down with some old SOB On Friday nights he'll get thrown out of Center Street Because Saturdays he’s up in a tree Tryin’ to drop a buck like his daddy On Sundays his mama’s tryin’ Get ‘em praying on his knees To break some hearts, break some laws Get some scars everybody can see If he’s like me at seventeen Now I’ve got a home A woman of my dreams I ask her what she saw In a wild eye boy like me Of chasin’ girls around with a fake ID And never backed down with some old SOB On Friday nights he'll get thrown out of Center Street Because Saturdays he’s up in a tree Tryin’ to drop a buck like his daddy On Sundays his mama’s tryin’ Get ‘em praying on his knees To break some hearts, break some laws Get some scars everybody can see If he’s like me at seventeen If I wasn’t me at seventeen If I wasn’t me at seventeen