I'd like to call somebody to the stage that you as a folk singer But you haven't met in his other 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 good My compatriot, Stookey
That was the of a golf ball Or if you're a ping-pong enthusiast, was a sound of a ping-pong ball Except generally you'll
the sound of a match between a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I played golf today, 18 I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I think you have been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I don't like sports very a vast number of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's skiing In order to water ski, you should swim, right? You're not stay up there all the time, now And I like to swim, really You know swimming is to me? Staying alive I'm in the water. I'll do anything to afloat Even swallow Co2
But I didn't out here to talk about sports I really, I came out here, Peter about status And I cannot think of one material object 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 can drive You get a learners at 15, a cheaters permit at 14 And it's, I it's really necessary because You lose a lot of calling up a girl and asking her If you can right over and pick her up, right?
They don't really go for that any And if you back on all the times you had the automobile from a few interesting saturday evenings 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, take the car, ha haaa Beautiful day for a drive, I I'll go out Ha haaa haaa ha
And then, and they level you with that giant killer, right? HAVE YOU DONE HOMEWORK?
If you fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I done my homework? Run out the You pick up 3 other pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The time is now 10 oclock in the The 4 guys are in the same car Well, whata you do? I know, whada you wanna do? Hey, we've been for 7 hours Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, what's Lets go to a drive-in and look 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 There's a place right next to them, 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 drive-ins first opened And the used 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 in conveyor belts in some drive-in resturants There was a time when the little girls came out in short little skirts Remember You in And the little girl would running up May I take order sir? Yes, but I believe it's on the menu, ha ha don't, they don't let you flirt any more now They you a little green box with 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 little cup With whatever 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 know And we'd like two strawberry shakes Water them down, or them down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody here chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you understand I mean? Are you
Well, could you us what we have please?
And four We'll it And after you get your food order in, you got at least 40 minutes to Even if it's just a cup of coffee you got 40 to wait And you get out of your car, right there was a time when drive-ins first opened You used to pull in and get out, exchange hellos, 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 old and drop your credit cards on the ground Officer, that's my I don't care who you are kid in the car If you do get out, you gotta be very Because the new resturants radar now So you have to crawl on your belly 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, this is a fancy car Hey, you're a pretty fancy
If you did to get out of the drive-in resturant without being maimed There was a sporting event taking at the traffic light Remember, all of two characters Mr. Businessman who drove a 4-door family with black-wall tires transmission Seated next to him in a 1941 gray primer Ford With it's rear end 2 inches off the Tomato cans for With his back to the window, his left arm draped over the steering wheel His hand gripped onto the gearshift lever A sneer on 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 bands are the rings in an transmission Which actually affect the change Uh huh, give you an example This is an automobile tight bands
This is an automobile loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has had his bands tightened And he thinks that he will show THE KID a or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched these 2 up over his left 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 also recall Winston Churchill a cigar, right? He used to it in here, right? And he would turn 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 automatic transmission into low He puts one 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 on the accelerator five inches The car is internally He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna have to have band job not gonna let THE KID show him up The changes to green, Mr. Businessman is off
at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 miles an hour Looks out the window and The Kids not there You know what's
He looks in the view mirror and The Kids still back at the corner He never anybody He just sits and scares the hell out of them