Quarter in a pay phone,
Drying laundry on a line
Watching sun tea in the window,
Pocket watch for telling' time
Seems like only yesterday
I'd get a blank cassette
Record the country countdown
Cause I couldn't buy it yet
If we drove all the way to Dallas
Just to buy an Easter dress
We'd take along a Rand McNally,
Stand in line to pay for gas
God knows that shifting gears
Ain't what it used to be
I learned to drive that '55
Just like a queen, three on the tree
Hey, whatever happened to
Waiting your turn, doing it all by hand?
Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time put in
It all just seemed so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic
If you had something to say
You'd write it on a piece of paper
Then you'd put a stamp on it
And they'd get it three days later
The boys would call the girls,
The girls would turn them down
Staying married was the only way
To work your problems out
Hey, whatever happened to
Waiting your turn, doing it all by hand?
Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time put in
It all just seemed so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic (yeah)
Automatic
Let's roll the windows down
Windows with the crank
C'mon let's take a picture
The kind you gotta shake
Hey, whatever happened to
Waiting your turn, doing it all by hand?
Cause when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time put in
It all just seemed so good the way we had it
Back before everything became automatic (yeah)
Automatic