The Way It Was In `51

<br>Sixty-Six was still a narrow two-lane highway<br>Harry Truman was the man who ran the show<br>The bad Korean war was just begining<br>And I was just three years too young to go<br>Country Music hadn`t gone to New York City yet<br>And a service man was proud of what he`d done<br>Hank and Lefty crowded ev`ry jukebox<br>That`s the way it was in fifty one.<br><br>There`s so much about the good old days I`d love to tell<br>And there`s folks around I know still remember well<br>Slow dancin` close together when a ballad played<br>`Cause a thing called Rock and Roll was yet to come<br>It was a big year for a drive-in rest`rant carhop<br>That`s the way it was in fifty one.<br><br>There`s so much about the good old days I`d love to tell<br>And there`s folks around I know still remember well<br>Slow dancin` close together when a ballad played<br>`Cause a thing called Rock and Roll was yet to come<br>It was a big year for a drive-in rest`rant carhop<br>That`s the way it was in fifty one.<br><br>Yeah! Hank and Lefty crowded ev`ry jukebox<br>Oh Lord That`s the way it was in fifty one.