(Noel Paul Stookey)

[Excerpt from "Talking Union" Words by Lee Hayes, Millard Lampell and Pete Seeger - inspired by Woody Guthrie's "Talking Dustbowl". "Talking Union"]



Lately I've been picking up strange vibrations

I hear my music now on oldies stations

"Put out a CD called "the best of what I was"

My picture's on the cover and no one knows



Just when you think you've got the wisdom of the ages

Nobody seems to want to turn your pages

I used to think I was the cat's pajamas

Now I'm about as hip as Fernando Lamas



(cause I'm) Old enough

Old enough to be your father

Old enough

Old enough (and then some)



And now my kids are taking me to the shows

There's hip-hop, rap, grunge music I don't know

I like to think I'm still part of the crowd

But, how can they hear the lyrics

When the music is so loud?!



I dig rock and roll music

(I been saying that for a while)

But I wonder if you knew

That rhythm