Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Rocky burned up the movie screen and I was turnin seventeen

Tie-dyed shirts and Levis jean, lookin cool at the Dairy Queen

Tryin to impress a young woman in her Sunday dress

Chorus

 And that was 1976, didn't know who I was yet

 A pretty little blonde haired girl stole my heart and changed my world

 Two kids and a moonlit sky, a little love on a Friday night

 Built a fire that just wont quit, that was 1976

Solo

My high school days I packed away, set my sights on a bigger stage

Jimmy Carter moved to DC, a Georgia boy just like me,

Life seemed easy nothin much that we needed

Repeat Chorus again:

That was 1976, didn't know who I was yet

A pretty little blonde haired girl stole my heart and changed my world

Two kids and a moonlit sky, a little love on a Friday night

Built a fire that just wont quit, that was 1976

Instrumental

 Interlude]

Eight track tapes were still in style and Elvis was still alive

Wonder Woman sure looked fine, Bionic Man was still Prime Time

And that girl I liked, we kept on tryin till we got it right

Repeat Chorus again:

And that was 1976, didn't know who I was yet

A pretty little blonde haired girl stole my heart and changed my world

Two kids and a moonlit sky, a little love on a Friday night

Built a fire that just wont quit, that was 1976

Yeah, that was 1976, didn't know who we were yet

 Built a fire that just wont quit and that was 1976

 We built a fire that just wont quit, that was 1976