C
Sixty-Six was still a narrow two-lane highway
G7
Harry Truman was the man who ran the show
C
And I was just three years too young to go
C7
F
And a service man was proud of what he’d done
C
Hank and Lefty crowded every jukebox
G7
C
That’s the way it was in fifty one
G7
C
There’s so much about the good old days I’d love to tell
G7
And there’s folks around I know still remember well
C
Slow dancing close together when a ballad played
C7
F
Cause a thing called rock and roll was yet to come
C
It was a big year for a drive-in restaurant carhop
G7
C
That’s the way it was in fifty one
G7
C
There’s so much about the good old days I’d love to tell
G7
And there’s folks around I know still remember well
C
Slow dancing close together when a ballad played
C7
F
Cause a thing called rock and roll was yet to come
C
It was a big year for a drive-in restaurant carhop
G7
C
That’s the way it was in fifty one
F
C
Yeah Hank and Lefty crowded every jukebox
G7
C
Oh Lord that’s the way it was in fifty one
C7
G7
F
C
