I'd to call somebody to the stage that you know as a folk singer But that you met in his other role
Paul is a comedian with a unique point of and commentary And in capacity, ladies and gentlemen Please with me to the stage, my good friend My compatriot, Stookey
That was the of a golf ball Or if you're a ping-pong enthusiast, that was a sound of a ball Except generally hear
the sound of a match between a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I played today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty too, I think you would have been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I don't like sports much There's a vast number of sports I'm not invlved in. There's skiing In order to water ski, really you swim, right? not gonna stay up there all the time, now And I like to swim, really You know what 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, talks about status And I cannot think of one material object that has status in this country the automobile And it starts at a very age now, right? I mean, now at 14, kids 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 guess it's really necessary You lose a lot of face calling up a girl and her If you can right over and pick her up, right?
don't really go for that any more And if you look on all the times you had the automobile Aside a few interesting saturday evenings You got to admit one of the nicest times of all Was a sunday afternoon, if you 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 haaa ha
And then, and then they you with that giant killer, right? YOU DONE YOUR HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I my homework? Run out the You up 3 other great pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The time is now 10 in the evening The same 4 are in the same car Well, whata you do? I know, whada you wanna do? Hey, been driving for 7 hours Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, that? Lets go to a drive-in resturant and at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, here they are, but they're all our high school Wait a minute, there's a car over there a place right next to them, lets go get it
Don't at 'em Here's the conversation in the car you never heard
Here come they are Don't at 'em
Remember the time when drive-ins first And the used to come out to take your order? Now you're lucky you know, if you get a in slacks who delivers it I understand they're even putting in belts in some drive-in resturants There was a time when the little came running out in short little skirts them? You in And the little girl would running up May I take order sir? Yes, but I don't it's 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 here with the little cup With that that's in there, we'll take it, whatever it is And uh, we'd like two hamburgers rare with everything on 'em And one hamburger, no, one hamburger, meat, no One frank, and chiliburgers, ok? Alright, and we'd like two chocolate shakes, regular thick, for spoons you THICK And we'd like two shakes thin Water them down, or milk them a little, ok we got somebody here with chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you what I mean? Are you
Well, could you us what we have please?
And six-packs 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 coffee you got 40 minutes to And you get out of your car, right Remember there was a when drive-ins first opened You used to pull in and get out, hellos, greetings Evidentally some were getting out and exchanging Something a little heavier than and greetings They policemen there to keep you in your car You can be 47 old and drop your credit cards on the ground Officer, my wallet I don't who you are kid back in the car If you do get out, you gotta be very the new resturants have radar now So you have to crawl on belly between the cars You get over to the of the car Psssst here! I can't come up, they'll me Put down your
windows, huh? Whoo, is a pretty fancy car Hey, a pretty fancy broad
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in resturant without maimed There was a sporting taking place at the traffic light Remember, all of two characters Mr. who drove a 4-door family sedan with black-wall tires Automatic Seated to him in a 1941 gray primer coated Ford it's rear end 2 inches off the ground Tomato for mufflers With his back to the drivers window, his left arm 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 Those of you who are not quite sure I mean By having your bands The are the rings in an automatic transmission actually affect the gear change Uh huh, I'll you an example This is an automobile with tight
This is an with loose bands
Well, Mr. has just had his bands tightened And he that he will show THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has these 2 fingers up over his left arm This is the universal among teenagers for dragging You recall Winston Churchill during the war years everyone assumed meant V for victory Actually if you'll also recall Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He used to hold it in here, And occationally he would turn to his friends on the and say a drag? See, and the picked it up The changes The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman decides to get daring He pulls the automatic transmission into low He one foot on the brake Still holding the foot on the brake, in order to get that extra fast He pulls the transmission down into low And pushes down on the five inches The car is hemorraging He knows, he knows, he knows he's have to have another band job not gonna let THE KID show him up The light changes to green, Mr. is off
Looks at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 an hour Looks out the and The Kids not even there You what's there?
He looks in the view mirror and The Kids still back at the corner He never races He just sits there and scares the hell out of