Take a left here boy, take it slow Don't get distracted by that radio I just rolled my eyes and I said, daddy I know I'm fifteen, I ain't green like some old ten year old What I wouldn't give to be sixteen, wild and free Cruisin' up and down Maine in my F-150 Roll the windows down, bass too loud from this burned CD I'll be right where I wanna be when I'm sixteen, sixteen Sixteen Now that I can drive, finally feel alive but I got this curfew Sneakin' in late, smellin' like my girlfriend's perfume People talkin' about college and knowledge and that's alright But all I'm thinkin' about is an unsupervised Saturday night What I wouldn't give to be eighteen, wild and free Buzzin' off a can of that grizzly winter green Lookin' old enough to pull off this fake ID I'll be right where I wanna be when I'm eighteen, eighteen Eighteen, yeah I'm old enough to smoke, I'm old enough to vote But they turn me away when I go to the Cotton Eye Joe They say the grass is always greener and I believe that's right But my friends are off to Vegas and they're leavin' me behind What I wouldn't give to be twenty-one, wild and free Twenty-one, wild and free Open up a cold one and drink it legally Chase a bunch of girls, go see the world, let my wild streak run I'll be right where I wanna be when I'm twenty-one, twenty-one When I'm twenty-one When I'm twenty-one, it'll be alright Yeah, it'll all be alright when I'm twenty-one Now I'm twenty-five and I'm drinkin' wine with my wife at home Got a couple dogs and a couple songs on the radio And we sit around and we laugh about how we used to be When all we cared about was turnin' sixteen