Bobby went out for a joy ride with my best girl

Left me at the party,

He was my best friend and I miss him.

It was almost June and the moon illuminated the
rain-soaked streets like a candy wrapper.

I guess that's why Bobby had his lights off,

Tear-assing threw the back part of town and those
deserted country roads where me and Bobby
tear-assed so many times before.

Sometimes with my best girl and sometimes Bobby
had him one too.

But this night he banked that curve just a little
too hard and that 442 went airborne,

Hit a telephone pole and split in two, Bobby's
skull was split right in two,

And my girl was pinned in her seat, partially
embedded in the dashboard

And for the next twenty minutes the only sound in
the night were her screams.

And the sound of the wheel still spinning.

In a little while the ambulance came and the
sound of its siren mixed with the screaming girl
and the spinning wheel.

But when the story was told the next day at the
graduation ceremony,

Everyone said that when the ambulance came

The paramedics could hear Free Bird still playing
on the stereo.

You know it's a very long song