I'd like to call somebody to the stage you know as a folk singer But that you haven't met in his role
is a comedian with a unique point of view and commentary And in this capacity, ladies and Please welcome with me to the stage, my good My compatriot, Stookey
was the sound of a golf ball Or if a ping-pong enthusiast, that was a sound of a ping-pong ball Except you'll hear
That's the sound of a match between a golfer and a enthusiast
I golf today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I think you would have been very of me Four. Five. Six
I like sports very much a vast number of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to water ski, really you swim, right? You're not gonna stay up all the time, now And I like to swim, really You know what is to me? Staying when I'm in the water. I'll do anything to afloat Even swallow Co2
But I didn't come out here to about sports I really, I came out here, Peter talks status And I cannot think of one material object that has more in this country the automobile And it at a very early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, kids want the car, They get permits so they can drive You get a learners permit at 15, a permit at 14 And it's, I guess really necessary because You lose a lot of face up a girl and asking her If you can peddle right over and pick her up,
They don't go for that any more And if you look back on all the times you had the from a few interesting saturday evenings You got to admit that one of the nicest of all Was a sunday afternoon, if you 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 haaa ha
And then, and then they you with that giant killer, right? HAVE YOU DONE YOUR
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I my homework? Run out the You pick up 3 other pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The time is now 10 in the evening The same 4 guys are in the car Well, you wanna 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 and look at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, here they are, but they're all from our school Wait a minute, there's a car over there There's a place right next to them, go get it
look at 'em Here's the conversation in the girls car you never
Here come they are Don't at 'em
the time when drive-ins first opened And the girls to come out to take your order? Now you're lucky you know, if you get a girl in who delivers it I understand they're even putting in conveyor belts in drive-in resturants There was a time when the little came running out in short little skirts Remember 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, don't let you flirt any more now They give you a little box with a white button on it A little grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger deluxe extra The one you have out here with the white cup With that that's 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 chocolate shakes, regular thick, for you know THICK And we'd two strawberry shakes thin Water them down, or milk them a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody here with chapped lips and 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 order in, you got at 40 minutes to wait if it's just a cup of coffee you got 40 minutes to wait And you get out of your car, right Remember there was a time when drive-ins opened You to pull in and get out, exchange hellos, greetings Evidentally some people getting out and exchanging a little heavier than hellos 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, that's my I don't care who you are kid in the car If you do get out, you gotta be careful Because the new resturants radar now So you have to on your belly between the cars You get over to the of the car Psssst here! I can't come up, spot me Put your window
Power windows, Whoo, this is a fancy car Hey, a pretty fancy broad
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in without being maimed was a sporting event 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 next to him in a 1941 gray primer Ford With it's rear end 2 inches off the cans for mufflers With his back to the window, his left arm draped over the steering wheel His right hand gripped onto the gearshift A on lips sat THE KID
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his tightened, and Those of you who are not quite what I mean By having bands tightened The are the rings in an automatic transmission Which actually the gear change Uh huh, give you an example This is an automobile with tight
This is an automobile with loose
Well, Mr. has just had his bands tightened And he thinks that he show THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched these 2 up over his left arm This is the universal signlanguage among teenagers for You probably recall Winston during the war years Which everyone assumed meant V for if you'll also recall Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, right? He to hold it in here, right? And occationally he would turn to his friends on the and say a drag? See, and the picked it up The light The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman decides to get very He pulls the automatic transmission into low He puts one foot on the Still holding the foot on the brake, in to get that extra fast start He pulls the automatic transmission down low And pushes down on the accelerator five The car is internally He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna to have another band job not gonna let THE KID show him up The light changes to green, Mr. is off
at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 miles an hour Looks out the window and The Kids not even You know there?
He looks in the rear view mirror and The Kids still back at the He never anybody He just there and scares the hell out of them