I'd like to call somebody to the stage that you as a folk singer But that you haven't met in his other
Paul is a comedian a unique point of view and commentary And in capacity, ladies 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 ping-pong enthusiast, that was a of a ping-pong ball Except generally hear
That's the sound of a match between a golfer and a ping-pong
I played today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I think you would have been proud of me Four. Five. Six
I don't like very much There's a vast number of sports I'm not invlved in. water skiing In order to water ski, you should swim, right? not gonna stay up there all the time, now And I don't to swim, really You know what is to me? Staying when I'm in the water. I'll do anything to stay Even swallow Co2
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 material object has more status in this country Than the And it starts at a early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, kids the car, right? They get cheaters permits so can drive You get a permit at 15, a cheaters permit at 14 And it's, I guess it's necessary because You lose a lot of face calling up a and asking her If you can peddle right over and 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 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, take the car, ha haaa Beautiful day for a drive, I think go out Ha haaa ha huuu
And then, and then level you with that giant killer, right? HAVE YOU DONE HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I 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 4 guys are in the same car Well, whata you do? I don't know, you wanna do? Hey, we've driving for 7 hours Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, that? go to a drive-in resturant and look at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, here they are, but all from our high school Wait a minute, there's a car over there There's a place next to them, lets go get it
Don't at 'em the conversation in the girls car you never heard
Here they There are look at 'em
Remember the time when drive-ins first And the girls used to come out to your order? Now lucky you know, if you get a girl in slacks who delivers it I they're even putting in conveyor belts in some drive-in resturants was a time when the little girls came running out in short little skirts Remember You in And the little girl would come up May I take order sir? Yes, but I believe it's on the menu, ha ha They don't, don't let you flirt any more now They give you a little green box a white button on it A speaker grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger special extra The one you have out here with the white cup With that whatever in there, we'll 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 we'd like two shakes, regular thick, for spoons you know THICK And like two strawberry shakes thin Water them down, or them down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody with chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you understand what I Are you
Well, you tell us what we have please?
And four We'll 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 to wait And you cannot get out of your car, Remember was a time when drive-ins first opened You to pull in and get out, exchange hellos, greetings Evidentally some people were out and exchanging Something a little heavier than hellos and 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 be very careful Because the new resturants radar now So you have to crawl on your belly between the You get to the side of the car Psssst here! I can't come up, spot me Put down your
windows, huh? Whoo, is a pretty fancy car Hey, you're a pretty fancy
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in resturant without being There was a event taking place at the traffic light Remember, all of two characters Mr. Businessman who drove a 4-door family sedan black-wall tires transmission Seated next to him in a 1941 gray primer coated it's rear end 2 inches off the ground Tomato for mufflers With his back to the window, his left arm draped over the steering wheel His right hand gripped the gearshift lever A sneer on sat THE KID
Well, Mr. has just had his bands tightened, and of you who are not quite sure what I mean By your bands tightened The bands are the in an automatic transmission Which actually the gear change Uh huh, I'll you an example This is an automobile tight bands
is an automobile with loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has had his bands tightened And he that he will show 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 Churchill during the war years everyone assumed meant V for victory Actually if you'll also Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He used to it in here, right? And he would turn to his friends on the stage and say Want a See, and the kids it up The changes The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman to get very daring He the automatic transmission down into low He one foot on the brake holding the foot on the brake, in order to get that extra fast start He pulls the automatic transmission into low And down on the accelerator five inches The car is hemorraging He knows, he knows, he knows he's have to have another band job He's not let THE KID show him up The changes to green, Mr. Businessman is off
Looks at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 an hour Looks out the and The Kids not even there You know what's
He in the rear view mirror and The Kids still back at the corner He races anybody He just sits and scares the hell out of them