I'd like to call to the stage that you know as a folk singer But that you haven't met in his other
Paul is a comedian with a unique point of and commentary And in this capacity, 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, that was a of a ping-pong ball Except you'll hear
That's the sound of a match between a golfer and a ping-pong
I played golf today, 18 I played golf, wooo I did pretty good too, I you would have 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. water skiing In order to water ski, really you should swim, You're not gonna up there all the time, now And I like to swim, really You know swimming is to me? Staying when I'm in the water. I'll do anything to afloat swallow Co2 cartriges
But I didn't out here to talk about sports I really, I came out here, talks about status And I cannot think of one object that has more status in this country the automobile And it starts at a very early age now, 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 it's necessary because You lose a lot of face up a girl and asking her If you can right over and pick her up, right?
They don't go for that any more And if you back on all the times you had the automobile Aside from a few saturday evenings You got to admit 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, gonna 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? HAVE YOU DONE HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, I done 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 4 guys 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, what's Lets go to a drive-in resturant and look at the girls, Oh, ok Well, here they are, but all from our high school Wait a minute, there's a car over there There's a right next to them, lets go get it
look at 'em Here's the in the girls car you never heard
Here they they are Don't at 'em
Remember the time when first opened And the girls used to come out to take order? Now you're you know, if you get a girl in slacks who delivers it I they're even putting in conveyor belts in some drive-in resturants There was a when the little girls came running out in short little skirts Remember You in And the little girl would running up May I take your sir? Yes, but I don't it's on the menu, ha ha They don't, they don't let you flirt any now They give you a little green box with a button on it A speaker grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one cheeseburger deluxe special The one you have out with the little white cup With that whatever that's in there, we'll take it, 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 you know THICK And we'd like two strawberry thin Water them down, or milk down a little, ok 'Cause we got here with chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you what I mean? Are you
Well, could you tell us what we please?
And six-packs We'll it And after you get your food order in, you got at least 40 minutes to if it's 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 pull in and get out, exchange hellos, Evidentally some were getting out and exchanging Something a little heavier than hellos and They have policemen there to you in your car You can be 47 years old and drop 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 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 window
windows, huh? Whoo, this is a pretty car Hey, you're a pretty fancy
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in resturant being maimed There was a sporting event taking place at the traffic 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 coated With it's rear end 2 off the ground Tomato for mufflers With his back to the drivers window, his left arm draped over the steering His right hand gripped onto the gearshift A sneer on sat THE KID
Well, Mr. Businessman has had his bands tightened, and Those of you who are not quite sure I mean By having your bands The bands are the rings in an transmission Which actually affect the change Uh huh, I'll you an example This is an automobile with 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 fingers up over his arm This is the universal signlanguage teenagers for dragging You recall Winston Churchill during the war years everyone assumed meant V for victory Actually if you'll also recall Winston smokes a cigar, right? He to hold 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 decides to get very 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 hemorraging He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna to have another band job not gonna let THE KID show him up The light to green, Mr. Businessman is off
Looks at the speedometer, 80, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98 an hour Looks out the window and The not even there You know what's
He in the rear view mirror and The Kids still back at the corner He never races He just there and scares the hell out of them