[Verse 1]
Down by the depot road
Where the fields ran long and green
We learned our names at the five and dime
And danced to the county queen
Friday nights in a parking lot
Coke cans cold in the grass
We thought the world was wide as sin
And every July would last
[Pre-Chorus]
And we still got the scars
From a life that moved too fast
But we wore our small-town hearts
Like they were made to last
[Chorus]
Franklin High School, class of eighty-six
We were young, wild, and stubborn as kicks
Franklin High School, West Virginia pride
Raised on good old days and a summer sky
Oh-oh, we remember
Oh-oh, we remember
[Verse 2]
Pagers on the kitchen counter
Mix tapes in a Ford
Roller skates on the driveway dust
And a boom box by the porch
We were big on dreams and cheap cologne
Hand-me-down jeans and hope
The church bell rang, the dusk came down
And nobody let go
[Pre-Chorus]
Yeah, the years went by like smoke
But the names still call me back
To that narrow lane, those open days
And the friends we never lost track
[Chorus]
Franklin High School, class of eighty-six
We were young, wild, and stubborn as kicks
Franklin High School, West Virginia pride
Raised on good old days and a summer sky
Oh-oh, we remember
Oh-oh, we remember
[Bridge]
Now the kids have grown
And the roads are paved with time
But I still see us on that hill
With the whole world in our eyes
Same old laugh, same old song
Same old fire, same old spark
If I close my eyes real hard
I can hear our hearts
[Final Chorus]
Franklin High School, class of eighty-six
We were young, wild, and stubborn as kicks
Franklin High School, West Virginia pride
Raised on good old days and a summer sky
Franklin High School, we still sing it loud
From a small-town life to the gathered crowd
Oh-oh, we remember
Oh-oh, we remember