Quarter in a payphone
Dryin' laundry on the line
Watchin' sun tea
in the window
Pocket watch for tellin' 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 shiftin' gears
ain't what it used to be
I learned to drive that 55
Just like a queen
Three on a tree
Hey whatever happened to
waitin' your turn
Doin' it all by hand
'Cause when everything
is handed to you
lt'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 somethin' 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
Boys would call the girls
And girls would
turn them down
Stayin' married
was the only way
to work your problems out
Hey whatever happened to
waitin' your turn
Doin' 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 cranks
Come on let's take a picture
The kind you gotta shake
Hey whatever happened to
waitin' your turn
Doin' 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