I'd like to call somebody to the stage that you know as a singer But you haven't met in his other role
is a comedian with a unique point of view and commentary And in this capacity, and gentlemen welcome with me to the stage, my good friend My compatriot, Stookey
That was the sound of a golf 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 don't like sports very a vast number of sports that I'm not invlved in. There's water In order to water ski, really you should swim, You're not gonna up there 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 to stay afloat swallow Co2 cartriges
But I didn't come out here to talk sports I really, I out here, Peter talks about status And I cannot of one material object that has more status in this country Than the And it at a very 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 it's really because You lose a lot of face calling up a and asking her If you can peddle right over and pick her up,
don't really go for that any more And if you look on all the times you had the automobile from a few interesting saturday evenings You got to admit that one of the 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 take the car, ha day for a drive, I think I'll go out Ha haaa ha huuu
And then, and then they level you with giant killer, right? HAVE YOU YOUR HOMEWORK?
If you were fast, say, mom, dad, have I done my homework? Run out the You pick up 3 other great pretenders, 3 oclock in the The is now 10 oclock in the evening The same 4 guys are in the car Well, whata you do? I know, whada you wanna do? Hey, we've been driving for 7 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 from our high Wait a minute, there's a car load over There's a place right to them, lets go get it
look at 'em Here's the in the girls car you never heard
they come There are look at 'em
Remember the when drive-ins first opened And the girls used to come out to your order? Now you're lucky you know, if you get a girl in 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 running out in short little Remember You in And the little would come running up May I take order sir? Yes, but I believe it's on the menu, ha ha They don't, they don't let you any more now They give you a little green box with a white on it A little grill, right
Oh, ok, um, We'd one cheeseburger deluxe special extra The one you have out with the little white cup With that that's 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 Water them down, or them down a little, ok 'Cause we got somebody with chapped lips and they'd like it thin Can, you what I mean? Are you
Well, could you tell us we have please?
And four take it And you get your food order in, you got at least 40 minutes to wait Even if it's just a cup of coffee you got 40 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 people were getting out and Something a little than hellos and greetings have policemen there to keep you in your car You can be 47 years old and your credit cards on the ground Officer, my wallet I care 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 belly between the cars You get over to the of the car Psssst here! I can't up, they'll spot me Put your window
Power windows, 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 at the traffic light Remember, with all of two Mr. who drove a 4-door family sedan with black-wall tires transmission Seated to him in a 1941 gray primer coated Ford With rear end 2 inches off the ground Tomato for mufflers With his back to the drivers window, his left arm over the steering wheel His right hand onto the gearshift lever A on lips sat THE KID
Well, Mr. Businessman has had his bands tightened, and of you who are not quite sure what I mean By having your tightened The bands are the rings in an automatic Which actually affect the gear Uh huh, give you an example This is an automobile with bands
This is an with loose bands
Well, Mr. Businessman has had his bands tightened And he that he will show THE KID a thing or two Meanwhile, THE KID Has inched 2 fingers up over his left arm This is the universal signlanguage among for dragging You probably Winston Churchill during the war years Which everyone meant V for victory if you'll also recall Winston Churchill 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 picked it up The changes The light changes to amber and Mr. decides to get very daring He pulls the automatic down into low He puts one foot on the Still holding the foot on the brake, in order to get extra fast start He pulls the automatic transmission down low And down on the accelerator five inches The car is hemorraging He knows, he knows, he knows he's gonna have to have another job He's not let THE KID show him up The light 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 what's there?
He looks in the rear view mirror and The still back at the corner He never races He just there and scares the hell out of them