That Oildale Bridge

We were oil and crop field kids built dirt tough

We didn't own much and hardly any fancy stuff

We liked our good times simple and plain

Fun to us was usually daring and seldom tame

 

Jumpin' off and fishin' along that Oildale Bridge

Were some of the most fun days we ever lived

Us boys and a few of the girls too had our fun

On that concrete bridge under a summer sun

  

Folks from not around called us River Rats

Because of the place we were raised at

It was the marker for the great divide

Big city Bakersfield was on the other side

Skinny dipping was part of it too

We all had the freedom to choose

Freedom is the best word to describe

What it meant then just to be alive

Those days with the mighty Kern River in flow

Are long gone but we will always recall and know

What it felt like in those hot summer throes

Jumping' in the water wearing no clothes, Ahhh

©Godot Boys Music (BMI) 2012

Words and music by Bryce Martin