1. In the year of the yellow cab
   In the shadow of the great world war
   The third kid grandmom had
   Came into this world
   On a rolling farm in Maryland
   When Wilson was the President
   And summer blew her good-bye through the trees 
   
2. A child of changing times
   Growing up between the wars
   The Fords rolled off the line
   And bars all closed their doors
   And I imagine you back then
   With snap brim hat and farmer's tan
   Where horses drew their wagons through the fields 
   
R: Now the fields are all four lanes
   And the moon's not just a name
   Are you more amazed at how things change
   Or how they stay the same
   And do you sit here on this porch and wonder
   How the time flies by
   Or does it seem to barely creep along
   With 75 Septembers come and gone 
   
3. Were the fields all gold and fawn
   Was the spring house dark and cool
   Did the rooster crow at dawn
   When they got you up for school
   And would you tell me once again
   The tales of grandad's hired men
   And how they drove the old road to town 
R: