Artist: Merle Haggard Album: Hag-The Studio Recordings 1969-1976 (2007) Title: The Way It Was In '51
Lyrics The Way It Was In '51(Merle Haggard)
Sixty-Six was still a narrow two-lane highway Harry Truman was the man who ran the show The bad Korean war was just begining And I was just three years too young to go.
Country Music hadn't gone to New York City yet And a service man was proud of what he'd done Hank and Lefty crowded ev'ry jukebox That's the way it was in fifty-one.
There's so much about the good old days I'd love to tell And there's folks around I know still remember well Slow dancin' close together when a ballad played 'Cause a thing called Rock and Roll was yet to come It was a big year for a drive-in rest'rant carhop That's the way it was in fifty-one.
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There's so much about the good old days I'd love to tell And there's folks around I know still remember well Slow dancin' close together when a ballad played 'Cause a thing called Rock and Roll was yet to come It was a big year for a drive-in rest'rant carhop That's the way it was in fifty-one.
Yeah! Hank and Lefty crowded ev'ry jukebox Oh Lord That's the way it was in fifty-one... |