John D. Loudermilk - When I Was Nine lyrics

When I was nine I found a toy that was interesting To a boy who was nine at the time On a hot summer Sunday afternoon in Durham, North Carolina I started thinking about pretty girls and kissing 'em and things And at that very moment over in Baton Rouge, Louisiana You were born all wrinkled and bawlin' a baby's hollar Diapered and powdered and drinking pet milk from a hospital bottle Is it a boy or a girl? What kind of boy would love you anyhow? But at that very time things started comin' together over in my mind This girl's eyes, that girl's hair All the pretty features I'd seen anywhere I put 'em all together Out of pin-up magazines, out of young boys' dreams What a glamour queen should look like And who would guess as you lay there with your hands in your mouth And on your head, not a hair that you were a dream come true For a boy somewhere over in North Carolina who was nine at the time