[Verse 1]
Up every morning at the crack of dawn
Nights as short as the days are long
Life turned out to be another magazine
I'm livin' with a stranger now
The girl I knew got away somehow
She went out with two bit gasoline
I wanna go back, you know what I mean, ah

[Chorus]
When the word was Thunderbird
And the price was forty twice
Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun
Now but love turned out to be a passin' thing
Different bird of a different wing
Some damn fool put a dollar twenty-nine
On a jug of Thunderbird wine
And Lord, I don't know if I'm gonna make it
I don't know if I'll have the strength to take it
Everything's hung up in yesterday

[Verse 2]
Married to a civic-minded social girl
Takin' shortcuts in a woman's world
She won't let her hair down when I'm home
Society is just slavery and security is killing me
I worked hard for it, but I give it all away
If I could go back to yesterday, ah
[Chorus]
When the word was Thunderbird
And the price was forty twice
Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun
Now but love turned out to be a passin' thing
Different bird of a different wing
Some damn fool put a dollar twenty-nine
On a jug of Thunderbird wine
And Lord, I don't know if I'm gonna make it
I don't know if I'll have the strength to take it
Everything's hung up in yesterday

[Outro]
When the word was Thunderbird
And the price was forty twice
Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun