I'd like to call somebody to the stage you know as a folk singer But that you haven't met in his other
Paul is a comedian with a point of view and commentary And in this capacity, and gentlemen Please with me to the stage, my good friend My compatriot, Stookey
That was the sound of a ball Or if you're a enthusiast, that was a sound of a ping-pong ball Except generally hear
the sound of a match between a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I golf today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I think you would have very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I like sports very much There's a vast number of that I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to water ski, really you swim, right? not gonna stay up there all the time, now And I don't like to swim, You what swimming is to me? alive when I'm in the water. I'll do to stay afloat Even Co2 cartriges
But I didn't out here to talk about sports I really, I out here, Peter talks about status And I cannot think of one object that has more status in this country the automobile And it starts at a very early age now, I mean, now at 14, kids want the car, They get cheaters permits so they can You get a learners at 15, a cheaters permit at 14 And it's, I guess it's really because You lose a lot of face up a girl and asking her If you can peddle right over and her up, right?
They don't really go for that any And if you back on all the times you had the automobile Aside a few interesting saturday evenings You got to admit that one of the times of all Was a afternoon, if you could get the car You come down the stairs, ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk mom, dad, gonna the car, ha haaa day for a drive, I think I'll go out Ha haaa ha huuu
And then, and then they you with that giant killer, right? HAVE YOU DONE HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, I done my homework? Run out the You pick up 3 other great pretenders, 3 in the afternoon The is now 10 oclock in the evening The same 4 guys are in the car Well, you wanna do? I don't know, whada you do? Hey, been driving for 7 hours Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, what's Lets go to a drive-in and look at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, here they are, but they're all our high school a minute, there's a car load over there There's a place right to them, lets go get it
look at 'em Here's the in the girls car you never heard
Here they they are Don't at 'em
Remember the time when first opened And the girls used to out to take your order? Now you're lucky you know, if you get a girl in who delivers it I understand they're even putting in conveyor belts in some resturants was a time when the little girls came running out in short little skirts Remember You in And the little would come running up May I take your order Yes, but I don't believe on the menu, ha ha They don't, don't let you flirt any more now They give you a green box with a white button on it A little speaker grill,
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger deluxe special The one you have out with the little white cup With that whatever that's in there, take it, whatever it is And uh, we'd like two medium rare with everything on 'em And one hamburger, no, one hamburger, meat, no One frank, and chiliburgers, ok? Alright, and like two chocolate shakes, regular thick, for spoons you know THICK And we'd like two strawberry shakes them down, or milk them down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody here with chapped and they'd like it thin Can, you what I mean? Are you
Well, you tell us what we have please?
And four take it And after you get your food order in, you got at 40 minutes to wait Even if it's just a cup of coffee you got 40 minutes to And you get out of your car, right Remember there was a when drive-ins first opened You to pull in and get out, exchange hellos, greetings some people were getting out and exchanging Something a heavier than hellos and greetings They have policemen there to keep you in car You can be 47 years old and your credit cards on the ground Officer, my wallet I care who you are kid back in the car If you do get out, you gotta be very Because the new resturants have now So you have to crawl on your belly the cars You get over to the of the car Psssst here! I can't come up, spot me Put your window
windows, huh? Whoo, this is a pretty car Hey, you're a pretty fancy
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in resturant being maimed was a sporting event taking place at the traffic light Remember, with all of two Mr. Businessman who drove a 4-door sedan with black-wall tires transmission Seated to him in a 1941 gray primer coated Ford With it's rear end 2 off the ground Tomato for mufflers With his back to the drivers window, his left arm over the steering wheel His right gripped onto the gearshift lever A on lips sat THE KID
Well, Mr. Businessman has had his bands tightened, and Those of you who are not quite what I mean By having your tightened The are the rings in an automatic transmission Which actually the gear change Uh huh, give you an example This is an automobile with tight
This is an automobile with bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his bands And he thinks that he will THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched 2 fingers up over his left arm This is the universal signlanguage teenagers for dragging You probably recall Winston during the war years Which assumed meant V for victory Actually if you'll also recall Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He used to it in here, right? And occationally he would to his friends on the stage and say a drag? See, and the picked it up The light The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman decides to get very He the automatic transmission down into low He puts one on the brake Still holding the on the brake, in order to get that extra fast start He pulls the automatic transmission down low And pushes down on the five inches The car is internally He knows, he knows, he knows gonna have to have another band job He's not let THE KID show him up The light to green, Mr. Businessman is off
Looks at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 miles an Looks out the window and The Kids not even You what's there?
He looks in the rear view and The Kids still back at the corner He races anybody He just there and scares the hell out of them