I'd like to call somebody to the stage that you as a folk singer But that you met in his other role
Paul is a comedian with a 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 you'll
That's the sound of a match a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I played golf today, 18 holes I played golf, I did pretty good too, I think you would been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I like sports very much There's a number of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to ski, really you should swim, right? You're not gonna up there 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 to stay afloat swallow Co2 cartriges
But I didn't out here to talk about sports I really, I came out here, Peter talks about And I think of one material object that has more status in this country the automobile And it at a very early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, kids the car, right? They get cheaters permits so they can 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 calling up a girl and asking her If you can peddle right over and her up, right?
They don't really go for any more And if you look back on all the times you had the Aside from a few interesting evenings You got to that one of the nicest 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 I'll go out Ha haaa ha huuu
And then, and then they level you that giant killer, right? YOU DONE YOUR HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I done my Run out the You pick up 3 other pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The is now 10 oclock in the evening The 4 guys are in the same car Well, you wanna do? I don't know, whada you do? Hey, we've been driving for 7 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 are, but they're all from our high school a minute, there's a car load 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 they are Don't at 'em
Remember the time drive-ins first opened And the girls used to come out to your order? Now you're lucky you know, if you get a in slacks who delivers it I understand they're putting in conveyor belts in some drive-in resturants There was a time when the little girls came running out in short little Remember You in And the girl would come running up May I your order sir? Yes, but I don't it's on the menu, ha ha They don't, they let you flirt any more now They give you a little green box with a white on it A little grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd one cheeseburger deluxe special extra The one you have out here the little white cup With that whatever in there, we'll take it, whatever it is And uh, we'd like two hamburgers medium 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 two strawberry shakes thin Water them down, or milk down a little, ok we got somebody here with chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you understand what I Are you
Well, could you tell us what we please?
And four We'll it And after you get your order in, you got at least 40 minutes to wait if it's just a cup of coffee you got 40 minutes to wait And you cannot get out of car, right there was a time when drive-ins first opened You used to pull in and get out, exchange hellos, Evidentally people were getting out and exchanging Something a heavier than hellos and greetings have policemen there to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and drop 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 careful Because the new resturants have now So you to crawl on your 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, you're a fancy broad
If you did to get out of the drive-in resturant without being maimed There was a sporting taking place at the traffic light Remember, all of two characters Mr. Businessman who drove a 4-door family sedan with black-wall Automatic Seated next to him in a 1941 gray primer Ford it's rear end 2 inches off the ground Tomato for mufflers With his to the drivers window, his left arm draped over the steering wheel His right hand gripped onto the gearshift A sneer on sat THE KID
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his tightened, and Those of you who are not quite sure what I By having bands tightened The bands are the in an automatic transmission Which actually affect the change Uh huh, I'll you an example This is an automobile with tight
This is an automobile loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his bands 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 among teenagers for dragging You probably Winston Churchill during the war years Which assumed meant V for victory Actually if you'll also recall Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, He used to hold it in here, And occationally he would turn to his on the stage and say a drag? See, and the picked it up The light The light changes to amber and Mr. decides to get very daring He pulls the automatic down into low He one foot on the brake Still holding the foot on the brake, in order to get that extra start He pulls the automatic down into low And pushes down on the five inches The car is internally He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna have to have 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 there You what's there?
He looks in the view mirror and The Kids still back at the corner He races anybody He just sits there and scares the out of them