The Old You

Did you ever have a friend
 Who did much better than you had planned?
 Returning to work, back out on the doze
 At a factory job making garden hose
 Saw the guy Grieg in the High Tetons
 The Summer sun had burned his nose
 Listen to Van at the swimming hole
 "you'll never match him, so give up the ghost".
 He was the gladdest man I had ever seen
 And he looked it too
 What's your name? Respond to your name
 Is You, Is it You, You were world-proof
 Last year went to the Outer Banks
 Planned to fish But the weather stank
 It's been a while since we played our game
 But I knew you when you weren't so tame
 Anwar came out to drink in town
 All the way down from his mountain hideout
 No hardship here for him to endure
 Not what he's used to, he'll get by I'm sure
 Is You, Is it You, You were world-proof