The Way It Was In '51 - Merle Haggard, The Strangers

Sixty-Six was still a narrow two-lane highway

Harry Truman was the man who ran the show

The bad Korean war was just begining

And I was just three years too young to go Country Music hadn’t gone to New York City yet

And a service man was proud of what he’d done

Hank and Lefty crowded ev’ry jukebox

That’s the way it was in fifty one.

There’s so much about the good old days I’d love to tell

And there’s folks around I know still remember well

Slow dancin’close together when a ballad played

'Cause a thing called Rock and Roll was yet to come

It was a big year for a drive-in rest’rant carhop

That’s the way it was in fifty one.

There’s so much about the good old days I’d love to tell

And there’s folks around I know still remember well

Slow dancin’close together when a ballad played

'Cause a thing called Rock and Roll was yet to come

It was a big year for a drive-in rest’rant carhop

That’s the way it was in fifty one.

Yeah!

Hank and Lefty crowded ev’ry jukebox

Oh Lord That’s the way it was in fifty one.