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  Radio Days As a 16 year old radio announcer at CJRW in Summerside, there were a few essential things you needed to know, like how to start the gas powered generator out back when the electricity went off, how to ensure the front door didn't lock behind you when you went next door for fried chicken, or which records not to play when the boss was listening. I loved working in that old Water Street studio, playing all the hits and the near misses too. The friendly little community radio station is gone now, absorbed into the corporate static. But I will always remember how it was. Lyrics It's quiet tonight at the Dixi-Lee As I watch my hometown fall asleep You could shoot a cannon down the middle of Water Street But upstairs in a dim lit studio There's a young boy playing rock and roll And it carries me back to my radio days Chorus: Back in my radio days Friends at school thought I had it made Sending love songs out over the air waves One for good luck keep following me And one for Judy at the Dixi-Lee Every request got played Back in my radio days My uncle Bob owned a radio station Music news and information Not much power but a reputation For making people happy With teenage magic on my lips I worked the weekend graveyard shift But you know the truth is I would have paid just to do it Repeat Chorus They called me tin ear but I didn't mind My kind of music was simply defined And every girl who called in She sang a new melody No fancy charts or formula goo We played the hits and the near misses too And on Saturday nights We were number one with a bullet Repeat Chorus Repeat First Verse End Players Unrecorded Copyright Wild Garden Music (SOCAN) |