I'd like to somebody to the stage that you know as a folk singer But that you haven't met in his other
Paul is a comedian a unique point of view and commentary And in this capacity, and gentlemen Please welcome me to the stage, my good friend My compatriot, Stookey
That was the of a golf ball Or if you're a enthusiast, that was a sound of a ping-pong ball Except you'll hear
the sound of a match between a golfer and a ping-pong enthusiast
I golf 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 don't like sports very a vast number of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to water ski, you should swim, right? You're not gonna stay up 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 Even Co2 cartriges
But I didn't 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 the automobile And it starts at a very early age now, I mean, now at 14, kids want the car, get cheaters permits so they can drive You get a learners permit at 15, a permit at 14 And it's, I guess it's really necessary You lose a lot of face up a girl and asking her If you can peddle right over and her up, right?
They don't really go for any more And if you look on all the times you had the automobile Aside from a few saturday evenings You got to that 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 level you with that giant killer, right? HAVE YOU DONE YOUR
If you were fast, you'd say, mom, dad, have I done my Run out the You up 3 other great pretenders, 3 oclock in the afternoon The is now 10 oclock in the evening The same 4 are in the same car Well, whata you do? I don't know, you wanna do? Hey, been driving for 7 hours Hey, I got an idea, he he Yeah, that? go to a drive-in resturant 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 load there There's a right next to them, lets go get it
look at 'em Here's the conversation in the girls car you heard
Here they There are Don't at 'em
Remember the when drive-ins first opened And the girls used to come out to take 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 girls came running out in short skirts them? You in And the little girl come 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 give you a little green box with a white button on it A speaker grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd one cheeseburger deluxe special extra The one you out here with the little white cup With that whatever 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 THICK And we'd like two strawberry thin them down, or milk them 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, could you tell us we have please?
And six-packs take it And after you get your food order in, you got at 40 minutes to wait Even if it's a cup of coffee you got 40 minutes to wait And you cannot get out of car, right Remember there was a time when first opened You used to pull in and get out, exchange hellos, Evidentally people were getting out and exchanging Something a little heavier than hellos and They have policemen to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and drop your credit cards on the Officer, that's my I don't who you are kid back in the car If you do get out, you gotta be careful Because the new have radar now So you have to crawl on your between the cars You get to the side of the car down here! I can't come up, spot me Put your window
Power windows, Whoo, is a pretty 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 place at the light Remember, all of two characters Mr. Businessman who a 4-door family sedan with black-wall tires Automatic next to him in a 1941 gray primer coated Ford With rear end 2 inches off the ground cans for mufflers With his back to the drivers window, his left arm draped over the wheel His right hand gripped onto the lever A on lips sat THE KID
Well, Mr. has just had his bands tightened, and Those of you who are not quite what I mean By having your bands The bands are the in an automatic transmission Which actually affect the gear Uh huh, give you an example This is an automobile with bands
is an automobile with loose bands
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 over his arm This is the signlanguage among teenagers for dragging You probably recall Winston during the war years Which everyone assumed V for victory Actually if you'll also recall Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, He used to 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. decides to get very daring He the automatic transmission 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 transmission down low And down on the accelerator five inches The car is internally He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna have to 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 miles an Looks out the window and The Kids not even You what's there?
He looks in the rear mirror and The Kids still back at the corner He never races He just sits there and scares the hell out of