I'd like to call somebody to the stage that you as a folk singer But that you haven't met in his role
Paul is a comedian with a unique point of and commentary And in this capacity, and gentlemen welcome with me to the stage, my good friend My compatriot, Stookey
That was the sound of a golf Or if you're a ping-pong enthusiast, that was a of a ping-pong ball Except you'll hear
That's the sound of a between a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I played golf today, 18 holes I golf, wooo I did pretty too, I think you would have been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I don't like sports very There's a vast number of sports I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to ski, really you should swim, right? You're not gonna stay up all the time, now And I don't like to swim, You know swimming is to me? Staying alive I'm in the water. I'll do anything to stay Even swallow Co2
But I didn't come out here to talk about I really, I came out here, Peter talks status And I cannot think of one material object that has more status in this the automobile And it starts at a very early age now, I mean, now at 14, want the car, right? They get cheaters so they can drive You get a permit at 15, a cheaters permit at 14 And it's, I it's really necessary because You lose a lot of face calling up a girl and her If you can peddle right and pick her up, right?
They don't go for that any more And if you back on all the times you had the automobile Aside from a few interesting saturday You got to admit that one of the nicest of all Was a afternoon, if you could get the car You come the stairs, ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk mom, dad, gonna take the car, ha day for a drive, I think I'll go out Ha haaa ha huuu
And then, and then they level you with giant killer, right? HAVE YOU DONE YOUR
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, I done my homework? Run out the You up 3 other great pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The time is now 10 oclock in the The same 4 guys are in the car Well, whata you do? I don't know, whada you do? Hey, we've been for 7 hours Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, what's Lets go to a resturant and look at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, here they are, but they're all from our school Wait a minute, a car load over there There's a right next to them, lets go get it
Don't at 'em Here's the conversation in the car you never heard
Here come There are look at 'em
Remember the time drive-ins first opened And the girls to come out to take your order? Now you're you know, if you get a girl in slacks who delivers it I understand they're even putting in conveyor in some drive-in resturants There was a time when the little girls came running out in short skirts Remember You in And the little would come running up May I take order sir? Yes, but I don't believe on the menu, ha ha They don't, they don't let you flirt any now They give you a little box with a white button on it A little speaker grill,
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger deluxe extra The one you have out with the little white cup With that that's in there, we'll take it, whatever it is And uh, we'd like two hamburgers medium rare everything on 'em And one hamburger, no, one hamburger, meat, no One frank, and chiliburgers, ok? Alright, and we'd like two chocolate shakes, thick, for spoons you know THICK And we'd like two shakes thin them down, or milk them down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody here with chapped lips and like it thin Can, you understand what I Are you
Well, could you tell us we have please?
And four We'll it And after you get your food in, you got at least 40 minutes to wait Even if it's just a cup of you got 40 minutes to wait And you cannot get out of your car, there was a time when drive-ins first opened You used to pull in and get out, hellos, greetings some people were getting out and exchanging Something a little than hellos and greetings They policemen there to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and drop your credit cards on the Officer, my wallet I don't who you are kid back in the car If you do get out, you be very careful Because the new resturants radar now So you have to crawl on your belly between the You get over to the of the car Psssst here! I can't up, they'll spot me Put down window
windows, huh? Whoo, this is a fancy car Hey, you're a fancy broad
If you did to get out of the drive-in resturant without being maimed There was a sporting event taking place at the traffic Remember, with all of two Mr. Businessman who drove a 4-door family with black-wall tires transmission Seated next to him in a 1941 gray coated Ford With it's end 2 inches off the ground Tomato for mufflers With his back to the drivers window, his left arm draped the steering wheel His right hand gripped the gearshift lever A on lips sat THE KID
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his tightened, and Those of you who are not sure what I mean By your bands tightened The bands are the in an automatic transmission Which actually affect the gear Uh huh, I'll give you an This is an automobile with tight
This is an automobile with loose
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his tightened And he thinks he will show THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched these 2 fingers up over his arm This is the universal signlanguage teenagers for dragging You probably recall Winston Churchill the war years Which assumed meant V for victory Actually if you'll recall Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He to hold it in here, right? And occationally he turn to his friends on the stage and say Want a See, and the picked it up The light The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman decides to get daring He pulls the automatic down into low He puts one on the brake Still the foot on the brake, in order to get that extra fast start He pulls the transmission down into low And pushes down on the accelerator inches The car is internally He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna to have another band job He's not gonna let THE KID him up The light to green, Mr. Businessman is off
Looks at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 an hour Looks out the window and The Kids not even You what's there?
He looks in the rear view mirror and The Kids back at the corner He never anybody He just sits there and scares the out of them