If you are mid 30's to 'older'. This song is about all the things we grew up with in that time frame.
My main genre is Celtic but I play everything from country to gospel. I have been preforming for over 20 years with different bands and a few of my own. Current
Story behind the song
My wife and I and a few friends sat around the table one night talking about all the things we grew up with and for the next 3 or 4 hours making up a list (it was a few pages) and over the next week or two I wrote this song. See how many things you can remember.
Lyrics
The Nostalgia Song
I Remember family Christmasss the big bulb lights on trees
The am radio in my fathers car the static that it made
When Tonka trucks were made of tin not plastic like today
A peddle car made of steel for hours we would play
CHORUS
Oh I wish I was a young kid again all the things I remembered
Way back then. Life was a simpler time old age is coming soon
And When I was ten we landed on the moon.
Cartoons on Saturday mornings, monster movie matinee,
Gumby played with Pokey and Lassie saved the day
The rabbit would get even with Captain Kangaroo
Barney Fife was yelling “car 55 where are you”?
CHORUS
Oh I wish I was a young kid again all the things I remembered
Way back then. Life was a simpler time old age is coming soon
And When I was ten we landed on the moon
Smoking candy cigeretts,chewing lots of gum
Bazooka Joe told a story and made the bad guys run
Cracker Jacks in a box with a real prize inside
while all the one hit wonders were played on a forty five.
CHORUS
Oh I wish I was a young kid again all the things I remembered
Way back then. Life was a simpler time old age is coming soon
And When I was ten we landed on the moon.
Bubble floats at the gas pumps, drive in movies I’d get in free.
Collecting S&H green stamps to get a new TV .There was grandmas wringer washer and soda pop machines, teenagers spent lots of time chasing submarines.
Silly Putty & comic books, mini skirts and hula hoops.
Bell bottom jeans and tie dyed shirts, fuzzy dice, a rabbits foot. Soda fountains, Dairy Queen, McDonalds and Burger King
Popeye and all the gang the Mickey Mouse Club Show.
Alfred Hitchcock, the Twilight Zone, Brandt, the Rat Patrol,
Dark Shadows the Andy Griffin Show, Mr. Ed and Lost in Space
Thunder Birds, Wolfman Jack, Huffy Bikes with banana seats
And rabbit ears just to watch TV. with Schlitz and Black Label beer.
CHORUS
CHORUS
Oh I wish I was a young kid again all the things I remembered
Way back then. Life was a simpler time old age is coming soon
And When I was ten we landed on the moon.
