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Under a yellow moon, over the orange grove


Some white boys played a game


Back when the Sunshine State was still segregated


And the 'Good Ol' Boys' wanted it to stay that way


But the Vietnam War, and Brown vs. the Board of Education


Changed everything


Yet on that night some white boys


Played a strange and dangerous game




And the young girls sat on the hoods of their cars


And they watched them race on by


In big Chevy's and Fords  and they were drinking Schlitz by the quart


And they were bored out of their minds


If mommies and daddies knew what their children do


In the light of a yellow moon


They'd lock them away 'til their dying day


In their safe, familiar rooms




It was back in the time  when those young girls would simply disappear


Somewhere in their junior or senior year


And they'd come back different,  and they'd come back changed


In another strange and dangerous game


Because 'good girls' didn't get pregnant then


Without a ring on their finger  and a man's last name


And all the good people would close their eyes


And they'd all agree on the same damned lie


Saying 'she just went to live with her Uncle J