[Intro]
   

[Verse 1]
            
Screen door cr

              
acked, there's

  
 ball game on
             
Man on a porch

           
 singin’ barit

one
            
Tan line leads

          
 to that gentl

e place
              
Between her co

             
llarbone and h

     
er stone-cold 

face

[Break]
   

[Verse 2]
            
Dockhand boys 

     
all say goodby

e
             
To the women t

              
hat they swear

           
 are gonna be 

their wives
            
They'll be gon

           
e by the winte

rtime
             
And they don't

              
 wanna bother 

        
with no friend

 of mine

[Chorus]
          
Wet, hot, Amer

       
ican nights
              
Shake your bod

              
y dry under co

        
astline light
          
Wet, hot, Amer

       
ican nights
              
Snuck our Ford

              
s to the shore

              
 and drank a b

          
ottle bone-dry
              
Snuck our Ford

              
s to the shore

              
 and drank a b

          
ottle bone-dry

[Verse 3]
            
Heard David go

             
t back from hi

s first tour
             
But he ain’t t

              
he same boy th

       
at he was befo

re
            
Twenty's too y

          
oung to nearly

 die
             
American boys 

         
are a friend o

f mine

[Break]
   

[Verse 4]
            
Delco Danny cu

     
t a deal with 

the dealer
             
That he met ou

              
t at the River

   
s Casino
            
He got caught 

              
countin' cards

              
, then them sp


ades broke his

 heart
             
Then the Point

              
 Breeze boys b

      
roke his nose
            
Mary got that 

              
job that she w

 
anted out of t

own
             
She was better

              
 than the sum 

            
of all of us a

nyhow
            
She still stop

           
s by whenever 

she can
             
She's tougher 

              
than my brothe

           
r with her bad

 left hand

[Chorus]
          
Wet, hot, Amer

       
ican nights
              
Shake your bod

              
y dry under co

        
astline light
          
Wet, hot, Amer

       
ican nights
            
Snuck our Ford

             
s to the shore

              
 and drank a b

           
ottle bone-dry
            
Snuck our Ford

             
s to the shore

              
 and drank a b

           
ottle bone-dry

[Break]
   

[Outro]
            
Screen door cr

              
acked, there's

  
 ball game on
             
Man on a porch

           
 singin’ barit

one
            
Tan line leads

          
 to that gentl

e place
              
Between her co

             
llarbone and h

     
er stone-cold 

face