Song Description

Bill Colgate - lead vocal/ Mike Francis - acoustic & electric guitars/ Brian Leonard - drums/ Tom Szczesniak - bass/ Ray Parker - piano/ John Johnson - tenor saxophone/ Dutch Robinson, Harvey Pipher, Michael Dunstin - vocals.

Lyrics

Slow dancing on a summer night
Lost in the shadows we could see the light
My bad big brother bought the lemon gin
We've been knocking back waiting for the band to begin

Cruising backroads that had no name
Bouncing branches off the windowpane
Lose the lights and we were in the stars
A thousand gypsies in their daddy's cars

A ragged blanket and a six-pack o' beer
And you and me baby down on Bigwin Pier
Coloured lanterns dancing in the trees
Swaying to the music playing on the breeze

Sing a song about the Rock of Ages
Tell a story 'bout the endless fight
Whisper secrets from forbidden pages
Hold me darling and make it tight

With 8 transistors my favourite girl
And a rock 'n' roll station I could move this world
And dance with you baby like we did that night
On the shore of Lake of Bays in the hot moonlight

On an ocean of stars roll those radio waves
The music of the Belvederes, the black Karmann Gias, and hot Chevrolets
And in the still of the night I swear I can hear
The voice of a long ago boy, singing his song, a ghost in my ear

An empty cottage and a heart for sale
Summertime passions in the autumn pale
Kicking memories along the road
The kind that's not designed to take a heavy load

But through the trees I can see us dancing
Forever moving to an endless tune
Forever captured in a moment of summer
Forever frozen by the light of the moon

With 8 transistors my favourite girl
And a rock 'n' roll station I could move this world
And dance with you baby to the same old song
You can hear it in the night it's been playing all along