Summer Side Of Life Lyrics

Lyric discussion by tsreyb 

Cover art for Summer Side Of Life lyrics by Gordon Lightfoot

Released in 1971, the US was still at war in Vietnam.

So, young girls talking to the young men they knew all night long .. going off to fight. That sounds to me like the boys are off to 'Nam.

The crying may be because of difficult war memories, or about coming home and marrying what ultimately turned out to be the wrong girl - or both. I think it is both.