Oh to live on, Sugar Mountain

With the barkers and the coloured baloons.

You can't be twenty, on Sugar Mountain

Though you're thinkin' that you're leavin' there too soon

you're leavin' there too soon

It's so noisy at the fair, but ALL your friends are there

And the candy floss you had, and your mother and your dad

Oh to live on, Sugar Mountain

With the barkers and the coloured baloons.

You can't be twenty, on Sugar Mountain

Though you're thinkin' that you're leavin' there too soon

you're leavin' there too soon

There's a girl just down the aisle, oh, to turn and see her smile.

You can hear the words she wrote, as you read the hidden note.

Oh to live on, Sugar Mountain

With the barkers and the coloured baloons.

You can't be twenty, on Sugar Mountain

Though you're thinkin' that you're leavin' there too soon

you're leavin' there too soon

Now you're underneath the stairs, and you're givin' back some glares

To the people who you met, and it's your first cigarette.

Oh to live on, Sugar Mountain

With the barkers and the coloured baloons.

You can't be twenty, on Sugar Mountain

Though you're thinkin' that you're leavin' there too soon

you're leavin' there too soon

Now you say you're leavin' home, 'cause you want to be alone.

Ain't it funny how you feel, when you're findin' out it's real?

Oh to live on, Sugar Mountain

With the barkers and the coloured baloons.

You can't be twenty, on Sugar Mountain

Though you're thinkin' that you're leavin' there too soon

you're leavin' there too soon