In The Good Ol' Summertime

"Ain't like the old days."

"Yeah, the kids had respect back then. That's 'cause they was brought up right, not all pampered and spoiled like they are now."

"Why sure. You talked back like some of these kids talk nowadays and you're backside 'd get a good tanning, that's what would happen."

"You got to lay down the law, that's what you got to do. Teach your kids some respect. That's the problem, you see. Kids don't respect their parents anymore."

"Naw, they just do what they please. Like wild dogs, that's all they is. A pack of wild dogs."

"You know what I can't figure out is what they're all so angry about. When I was their age we didn't have no TV or Nintendo's or any of that. We did our chores and was grateful for everything we got. But these kids of today, they're always pissing and moaning about something, and joining gangs and shooting each other dead. What are they all so angry about?"

"It's all that TV they're watching. That's what does it to them. That and them videogames. They watch that stuff and it's like they want to go out and shoot someone, just like the people on TV. "

"And that music they listen to. That is, if you can call it music. All that cursing and sex and violence and such. How is that music? And little kids listening to it too. And their mothers don't say nothing. It's like the whole country's gone crazy."

"Yeah, it ain't like it used to be. Used to be you'd drive your girl out someplace quiet and turn on something romantic and, well, you know. Ain't like that anymore. Now you like a girl you just grab her and take her into the mens room, and 9 months later she's pregnant and applying for welfare."

"You're right. The romance is gone. Everything is sex, sex, sex. Hell, they even post pictures of it on the internet. Back where I come from we used to call girls like that sluts, but now they call them celebrities. Like that, uh, you know, Hilton girl. You hear about that. Had sex right there on the internet."

"Well listen to the songs. It's all bitch this and ho that. That's all they know."

"Those aren't songs. 'Tennessee Waltz', now that was a song. No sex and violence there. You could take a girl out on the dance floor and hold her close and not feel embarrassed by what they was singing with a song like that."

"Sure you could, because songs were romantic back then. Just a bunch of grunting and screaming is all they do now."

"You're right. We had songs about love and feelings, but all they sing about nowadays is sex and violence. No wonder these kids are all screwed up."

"You know I can still remember my dear old grandma sitting in her rocker listening to those old Jimmie Rodgers records. That was music, my friend. That was music. None of this sex and violence."

"Yeah, my grandma loved that Jimmie Rodgers too. You remember that ol' song, what was it called - T for Texas."

"T for Texas, T for Tennessee. T for Texas, T for Tennessee. T for Thelma, that gal made a wreck out of me."

"Yeah that's the one. I can still see my grandma sitting in her rocker listening to that song too. Kind of makes me want to cry to stop and think about it."

"If you don't want me, mama, you sure don't have to stall. If you don't want me mama, you sure don't have to stall. 'Cause I can get more women, than a passenger train can haul."

"That's good. Keep going."

"I'm gonna buy me a pistol, just as long as I am tall. Gonna buy me a pistol, just as long as I am tall. And I'm gonna shoot poor Thelma, just to watch her jump and fall."

"That part always made grandma cry a little."

"I'm going where the water drinks like cherry wine. I'm going where the water, drinks like cherry wine. 'Cause the Georgia water tastes like turpentine. Gonna buy me a shotgun with a great long shiny barrel. Gonna buy me a shotgun with a great long shiny barrel. Then I'm gonna shoot that rounder stole away my Gal."

"Yodel-a-ee-hoo, a-ee-hoo, a-lay-eee"

"Rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log. Rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log. Than to be in Atlanta, treated like a dirty dog."

"Yodel-a-ee-hoo, a-ee-hoo, a-lay-eee. Ha, ha, ha. That sure does bring back some memories. They don't write 'em like that anymore, do they."

"No sir, not like that. No sir."