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 capacity, ladies and gentlemen Please welcome with me to the stage, my friend My compatriot, Stookey
was the sound of a golf ball Or if you're a ping-pong enthusiast, was a sound of a ping-pong ball generally you'll hear
That's the sound of a match a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I played today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I you would have been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I don't like very much There's a number of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to water ski, really you should swim, 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 anything to stay swallow Co2 cartriges
But I didn't come out here to talk about I really, I came out here, Peter about status And I cannot think of one material object that has more in this country the automobile And it starts at a early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, kids want the car, They get permits so they can drive 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 calling up a 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 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 down the stairs, ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-clunk mom, dad, gonna the car, ha haaa Beautiful day for a drive, I think go out Ha haaa haaa ha
And then, and then they level you with that giant killer, HAVE YOU DONE HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I done my Run out the You pick up 3 other great pretenders, 3 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, you wanna do? Hey, we've driving for 7 hours Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, what's Lets go to a drive-in resturant and look at the girls, Oh, ok Well, here are, but they're all from our high school Wait a minute, there's a car load there There's a place next to them, lets go get it
look at 'em Here's the conversation in the car you never heard
they come they are Don't at 'em
the time when drive-ins first opened And the girls used to come out to your order? Now you're lucky you know, if you get a girl in who delivers it I understand they're putting in conveyor 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 would come running up May I take your order Yes, but I believe it's on the menu, ha ha They don't, they don't let you any more now They give you a little box with a white button on it A little speaker grill,
Oh, ok, um, like one cheeseburger deluxe special 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, like two hamburgers 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 chocolate shakes, regular thick, for spoons you know And we'd two strawberry shakes thin Water them down, or them down a little, ok 'Cause we got here with chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you understand I mean? Are you
Well, could you us what we have please?
And six-packs We'll it And after you get food order in, you got at least 40 minutes to wait Even if just a cup of coffee you got 40 minutes to wait And you cannot get out of car, right Remember there was a time drive-ins first opened You used to in and get out, exchange hellos, greetings some people were getting out and exchanging Something a heavier than hellos and greetings They have there to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and your credit cards on the ground Officer, that's my I don't who you are kid back in the car If you do get out, you be very careful Because the new resturants have now So you have to crawl on belly between the cars You get to the side of the car Psssst here! I can't up, they'll spot me Put down your
windows, huh? Whoo, is a pretty fancy car Hey, you're a pretty broad
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in resturant being maimed There was a sporting event place at the traffic light Remember, all of two characters Mr. Businessman who drove a 4-door family with black-wall tires Automatic 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 window, his left arm draped 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 sure what I mean By having your bands The are the rings in an automatic transmission actually affect the gear change Uh huh, I'll give you an This is an automobile tight bands
This is an automobile with loose
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 these 2 fingers up his left arm This is the signlanguage among teenagers for dragging You probably recall Winston during the war years Which everyone assumed meant V for 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 kids it up The light The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman to get very daring He pulls the transmission down 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 automatic transmission down 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 not gonna 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 out the window and The Kids not even there You know there?
He looks in the rear view mirror and The Kids still back at the He never anybody He sits there and scares the hell out of them