| Jackie was one of the crowd | 
| Who hung out at the Cross Keys Hotel | 
| She was a real bright kid | 
| Thought I knew her pretty well | 
| Beach parties at night | 
| We ran down town in the day | 
| Till a boy in black leather | 
| Came and took Jackie away | 
| We were all in The Keys one night | 
| Sitting, laughing and joking | 
| Billy’d got himself a new job | 
| Ross had given up smoking | 
| I was crazy for Jackie | 
| I was almost ready to say | 
| When a boy in black leather | 
| Came and took Jackie away | 
| He was standing at the bar | 
| When I went up for a drink | 
| Then he and she just started talking | 
| I didn’t know what to think | 
| Billy pulled me into an argument | 
| About the big bad world today | 
| I looked up and a boy in black leather | 
| Was taking Jackie away | 
| After that things began to get dull | 
| I took up with Billy’s sister Molly | 
| But that got really kicked on the head | 
| When she upped and went to college | 
| I got to thinking about Jackie | 
| And as autumn moved into gray | 
| I thought about a boy in black leather | 
| Who came and took Jackie away | 
| Then this month I saw her | 
| The girl I knew had all but gone | 
| Tight jeans, mohair sweater | 
| Her hair was chopped off, peroxide blond | 
| I crossed the road towards her | 
| Thinking of something to say | 
| When a boy in black leather walked over | 
| And together they hurried away |