D  E
    and I won't give it up to you.
D                           E
And I feel love, feel love. Love, love!

[Chorus]
D              E
Jailhouse gets empty,
D         E
Rudy gets plenty,
D                    E
The baton stick gets shorter,
D         E
Rudy gets taller.
D                       E
Can't fight against the youth,
            D
Cause we're strong.
                    E
Them are rude, rude people.
D                       E
Can't fight against the youth,
            D
Cause we're strong.
                    E
Them are rude, rude people.

[Verse]
D
Now when I was a youth in 1983
           E
it was the best day of my life.
               D
We had the '89 vision

we didn't fuss and no fight,
     E
when all the little daughters wanna be my wife
       D
like a vision,
                     E
it was playin' on my guitar,

on my guitar,
            D
I had to be there,

I had to be there,
            E
I had to be there,