Mickey Newbury - "That's The Way It Was Then" lyrics
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Do the cowboys still sit with their backs to the wall
Do the drifters still answer the highwaymans call
And do the old hobos still cook their beans in a tin
Do the sailors still cast their fates to the wind
Are the villians in black hats are the heros in white
Are there sock-hoppin' rock and rollin' Saturday nights
Would a '49 Mercury still be outta sight
Well that was the way it was then
You were like Natalie I was James Dean
Slow walkin' soft talkin' silently mean
Surely that rebel in me lives again
But now without a cause to be all caught up in
Do the drifters still answer the highwaymans call
And do the old hobos still cook their beans in a tin
Do the sailors still cast their fates to the wind
Are the villians in black hats are the heros in white
Are there sock-hoppin' rock and rollin' Saturday nights
Would a '49 Mercury still be outta sight
Well that was the way it was then
You were like Natalie I was James Dean
Slow walkin' soft talkin' silently mean
Surely that rebel in me lives again
But now without a cause to be all caught up in
Oh the blacks have their freedom and the reds are our friends
And we've ended a war we could not seem to win
And the Folk singers' out on his ass once again
My how the times they have changed
Its a quarter to ten and I'm lyin' in bed
Spinnin' that old memory thing in my head
The times were so good and the songs were so sad
It was a game we would play feellin' good feelin' bad
And theres a girl I remember now what was her name
Why we made love one night in a hell of a rain
Well maybe ten minutes how time then would fly
It will never be that way again