“19 Somethin’” is a song written by David Lee and Chris DuBois and recorded by American country music singer Mark Wills. It was released in September 2002 as the first single from his Greatest Hits compilation album and spent six weeks at number one on the Hot Country Songs chart in early 2003. It reached number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the longer-lasting of Wills’ two number one singles. It would become the number 2 country song of the decade on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart.
Lyrics:
I saw Star Wars at least eight times
Had the Pac-Man pattern memorized
And I’ve seen the stuff they put inside
Stretch Armstrong, yeah
Oh, I was Roger Staubach in my backyard
Had a shoebox full of baseball cards
And a couple of Evel Knievel scars on my arm
Well, I was a kid when Elvis died
And my mama criedIt was 1970-something
In the world that I grew up in
Farrah Fawcett hair-do days
Bell-bottoms and eight-track tapes
Lookin’ back now I can see me
And oh, man, did I look cheesy
But I wouldn’t trade those days for nothin’
Oh, it was 1970-something, yeahIt was the dawning of a new decade
We got our first microwave
And Dad broke down and finally shaved them old sideburns off
I took the stickers off of my Rubik’s Cube
Watched MTV all afternoon
My first love was Daisy Duke in them cut-off jeans
A space shuttle fell out of the sky
And the whole world criedIt was 1980-something
In the world that I grew up in
Skating rinks and black Trans Ams
Big hair and parachute pants
And lookin’ back now I can see me
And oh, man, did I look cheesy
I wouldn’t trade those days for nothin’
Oh, it was 1980-somethingNow I got a mortgage and an SUV
But all this responsibility
Makes me wish (Wish) sometimes (Sometimes)It was 1980-something
In the world that I grew up in
Skating rinks and black Trans Ams
Big hair and parachute pants
And lookin’ back now I can see me
And oh, man, did I look cheesy
I wouldn’t trade those days for nothin’
Oh, it was 1980-something1970-something
Aw, it was 19-something
