[Verse 1]
I love women
Have all my life
I love my dear mother
And I love my wife—God bless her
Even love my teenage daughter
There's no accounting for it
Apparently I don't care how I'm treated
My love is unconditional or something

[Verse 2]
I've been hurt a time or two
I ain't gonna lie
I've had my doubts sometimes
About the ethics of the so-called fairer sex
Fair about what?
But I find time goes by
And one forgives as one forgets
One does forget

[Chorus]
God bless the potholes
Down on memory lane
God bless the potholes
Down on memory lane
Everything that happens to me now
Is consigned to oblivion by my brain
[Verse 3]
I remember my father, oh
My brother of course
Remember my mother
Spoke of her earlier and I remember that
Remember the smell of cut grass
And going off to play ball in the morning
Funny story about that

[Verse 4]
Now I used to pitch
I could get the ball over the plate
But anyway, this one time
I must've thrown a football around or something the day before
I walked about fourteen kids in a row
Cried
Walked off the mound
Handed the ball to the third baseman
And just left the field

[Verse 5]
Anyway, many years later
I brought the woman who was to become my second wife—God bless her
To meet my father for the first time
They exchanged pleasantries
I left the room for a moment
It was the first time he had met her, you understand
When I came back
He was telling her the story
Right off the bat
About how I had walked fourteen kids
Cried and left the mound
Next time he met her told her the same goddamn story!
[Chorus]
God bless the potholes
Down on memory lane
God bless the potholes
Down on memory lane
I hope some real big ones open up
Take some of the memories that do remain