When The Word Was Thunderbird by Billy Joe Shaver
When The Word Was Thunderbird by Billy Joe Shaver

When The Word Was Thunderbird

Billy Joe Shaver * Track #8 On When I Get My Wings

When The Word Was Thunderbird Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Up every morning at the crack of dawn
Nights as short as the days are long
Life turned out to be another magazine
I'm livin' with a stranger now
The girl I knew got away somehow
She went out with two bit gasoline
I wanna go back, you know what I mean, ah

[Chorus]
When the word was Thunderbird
And the price was forty twice
Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun
Now but love turned out to be a passin' thing
Different bird of a different wing
Some damn fool put a dollar twenty-nine
On a jug of Thunderbird wine
And Lord, I don't know if I'm gonna make it
I don't know if I'll have the strength to take it
Everything's hung up in yesterday

[Verse 2]
Married to a civic-minded social girl
Takin' shortcuts in a woman's world
She won't let her hair down when I'm home
Society is just slavery and security is killing me
I worked hard for it, but I give it all away
If I could go back to yesterday, ah

[Chorus]
When the word was Thunderbird
And the price was forty twice
Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun
Now but love turned out to be a passin' thing
Different bird of a different wing
Some damn fool put a dollar twenty-nine
On a jug of Thunderbird wine
And Lord, I don't know if I'm gonna make it
I don't know if I'll have the strength to take it
Everything's hung up in yesterday

[Outro]
When the word was Thunderbird
And the price was forty twice
Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun

When The Word Was Thunderbird Q&A

when was this song originally written?

It came out in 1976. It wasn’t on his first album, which he released in 1973, but by then he had a backlog of songs he was getting out, so he could have written it before then. It was probably written some time between 1969 and 1975.

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