Quarter in a payphone
Drying laundry on the line
Watching sun tea in the window
Pocket watch for telling time
Seems like only yesterday
I'd get a blank cassette
Record the Country Countdown
'Cos 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 the trip
Hey whatever happened to
Waiting your turn
Doing it all by hand
'Cos when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
It all just seems so good the way we had it
Back before everything became, Automatic
If you had something to say
You'd write in on a piece of paper
And 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
Staying married was the only way
To work your problems out
Hey whatever happened to
Waiting your turn
Doing it all by hand
'Cos when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
It all just seems so good the way we had it
Back before everything became, Automatic, yeah
Automatic
Lets's roll the windows down
Windows with the cranks
Come on let's take a picture
The kind you gotta shake
Hey whatever happened to
Waiting your turn
Doing it all by hand
'Cos when everything is handed to you
It's only worth as much as the time you put in
It all just seems so good the way we had it
Back before everything became, Automatic, yeah
Automatic