Elvis Presley,"Heartbreak Hotel" "Blue Swede shoes"
Carl Perkins wrote Blue Swede shoes
Also had a first class version
The Wailers and Kingsman, "Louie louei"
The Twin Towers were still standing
Mexico was closer to South America than Alaska
The Ventures Four Seasons Beachboys
"What is that sound?"
Mom thought the "Bop" was too sexy
You asked Dad on your bended knee for daughters hand
You had to get a job to put food on your table
Tent cities were camping trips along the river
Marajuana was a weed and dopers smoked it
Using cocaine was insane, alcohol was addictive
Well nothing had changed but this idiot generation
More deaths from overdoses than car wrecks
And most of them from drug use I suspects
Is saying to our kids that it is legal to rot your brains
"How much is that Doggy in the window?"
or in the grocery store or restaurant
or the one messng in the food cart
Sitting on your lap as you drive and play video games
On the phone, Cr-----------ash? I left my pot in San Francisco
Boys were boys, girls were girls, and they used different bathrooms
Say yes to the dress was not covered in tatooes
And who was marrying who there were clues!
I graduated in 1956, "Louie louie lue lo Eye!"
The Wailers not the Kingsmen but nice try!
To serve my country to my family and friends said goodbye
To soar, to seek, embrace the sky, but alas no wings have I!"
But before joining the Airforce thought give Marines a try
Bad eyesight, deaf in one ear, colorblind my fate was clear
Looking for a few good men and son a Marine you ain't near
Submarine corps said at six foot three confined places
You might try the Army make you an armed guard
Couldn't picture me packing a rifle working so hard
Flying a jet plane didn't sound that hard
You can't see, colorblind Kid, you're really a card
Nothing we can do for you is make you a medic
Bend over, close your eyes, Airmen this is going to stick
How could I tell them seeing blood make me sick!
Had four years to serve this dude was up a creek
When I returned the singing was all about dope
Fond memories i have of early sixties
The seventies all went out of scope
Fond memories nope
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