Well she's sitting right there on the chain link fence   She's down at the park with the rest of her friends   And she looks so pretty but she's only sixteen   Didn't know that when she smiled at me   Now the boys are hunched over their electric guitars   I'm lying in the grass out beside my car   I followed her down to the Dixie Freeze   Hold on, hold on, hold on to me   Sweet girl   Don't let go for the world   Cause I'm not from here   And I'm afraid that I might never see you again   Now it's the end of the summer and I'm just twenty-one,   I been in California for the last two months   And there weren't no girls like her out there   Her boyfriend don't like me and I think that's fair   Cause I'm sitting right here on the chain link fence   And when she smiles at me gonna take my chance   Say I know the show's over but I wish you wouldn't leave   Hold on, hold on, hold on to me