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 of view and commentary And in capacity, ladies and gentlemen Please welcome with me to the stage, my good My compatriot, Stookey
That was the sound of a golf Or if you're a enthusiast, that was a sound of a ping-pong ball Except you'll hear
That's the of a match between a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I played today, 18 holes I played golf, wooo I did pretty too, I think you would have been very proud of me Four. Five. Six
I like sports very much There's a vast number of sports I'm not invlved in. There's skiing In order to water ski, really you should swim, not gonna stay up there all the time, now And I like to swim, really You know what is to me? Staying alive I'm in the water. I'll do to stay afloat swallow Co2 cartriges
But I come out here to talk about sports I really, I out here, Peter talks about status And I cannot think of one material object that has more in this country Than the And it starts at a early age now, right? I mean, now at 14, want the car, right? They get permits so they can drive You get a learners permit at 15, a cheaters at 14 And it's, I guess really necessary because You lose a lot of face calling up a girl and her If you can peddle right over and pick her up,
don't really go for that any more And if you back on all the times you had the automobile Aside from a few interesting 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 think go out Ha haaa ha huuu
And then, and then they you with that giant killer, right? YOU DONE YOUR HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, I done my homework? Run out the You up 3 other great pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The is now 10 oclock in the evening The 4 guys are in the same car Well, whata you do? I don't know, whada you do? Hey, we've been driving for 7 Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, what's Lets go to a drive-in resturant and at the girls, hehehe Oh, ok Well, here are, but they're all from our high school Wait a minute, there's a car over there a place right next to them, lets go get it
Don't at 'em the conversation in the girls car you never heard
Here come they are Don't at 'em
Remember the time when first opened And the girls used to 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 some resturants There was a time when the girls came running out in short little skirts them? You in And the little girl would running up May I take order sir? Yes, but I don't it's on the menu, ha ha They don't, they don't let you any more now They you a little green box with a white button on it A little grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd like one deluxe special extra The one you have out here with the white cup With that whatever 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 THICK And we'd two strawberry shakes thin Water them down, or milk down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody with chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you understand what I Are you
Well, you tell us what we have please?
And four We'll it And after you get your food order in, you got at least 40 to wait 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 when drive-ins opened You to pull in and get out, exchange hellos, greetings some people were getting out and exchanging Something a little heavier than and greetings They have there to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and drop credit cards on the ground Officer, that's my I care who you are kid back in the car If you do get out, you gotta be very the new resturants have 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, they'll me Put down window
Power windows, Whoo, this is a fancy car Hey, you're a fancy broad
If you did manage to get out of the drive-in without being maimed There was a event taking place at the traffic light Remember, all of two characters Mr. who drove a 4-door family sedan with black-wall tires transmission Seated next to him in a gray primer coated 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 right hand gripped onto the lever A on lips 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 in an automatic transmission Which actually affect the change Uh huh, give you an example This is an automobile tight bands
is an automobile with loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has just had his tightened And he thinks that he will THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched these 2 fingers up over his arm This is the universal signlanguage among for dragging You probably recall Winston Churchill during the war Which everyone assumed meant V for Actually if you'll also recall Winston smokes a cigar, right? He used to hold it in here, And he would turn to his friends on the stage and say a drag? See, and the kids it up The changes The light changes to amber and Mr. Businessman to get very daring He pulls the automatic transmission into low He puts one foot on the Still the foot on the brake, in order to get that extra fast start He pulls the automatic transmission into 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 He's not 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 Looks out the and The Kids not even there You what's there?
He looks in the rear view mirror and The still back at the corner He never anybody He just there and scares the hell out of them