Simple Days Lyrics - Babyface

1 I was born on the north side of a

2 Midwestern town

3 There were nine of us living in a

4 Three bedroom house

5 Didn't have much money

6 But we made due

7 'Cause Momma worked all day long

8 And Daddy did too

9 Did all they could

10 Made sure we had clothes and food

11 Went to public schools and we

12 Followed public rules

13 We used second hand books, but oh

14 I didn't mind the books

15 Momma taught us early in life

16 Everybody's gotta struggle sometime

17 Bring back those simple times of yesterday

18 When a man was a man

19 And a friend was a friend

20 Bring back those simple times of yesterday

21 When you said what you meant

22 And you meant what you said

23 Had a friend named Bobby

24 Who always kept his word

25 We went through schoolyard fights

26 Had a thing for pretty girls

27 Didn't cost much money to

28 See the picture show

29 So we hopped the bus into town

30 That's where all the girlies used to go

31 Fifty cents would buy us popcorn for two

32 'Cause Bobby's girl, she worked there

33 And sometimes she'd break the rules

34 Picnics in the summer

35 Wouldn't wake up 'till noon

36 And even though Bobby's gone now

37 I can still hear him laugh

38 In the middle of June

39 HOOK

40 Sometimes I sit, I wonder

41 I reminisce, I think of all the good times

42 That we had in our lives

43 Sometimes I can't get over

44 How wonderful those days were

45 Back in our lives

46 Simple days for simple times

47 HOOK