Quarter in a payphone

drying laundry on the line

watching sun tea

in the window

pocket watch 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 shifting

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

doing 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

If you had

something 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 saying married

was our only way to

work your problems out

Hey whatever happened to

waitin' your turn

doing 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 pull 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

doing 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