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Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 20:46:35 -0600 (MDT)
From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham)
Subject: allsongs

THE WAY IT WAS IN '51
Writer:  Merle Haggard
Singer:  Merle Haggard

[C]Sixty-Six was still a narrow two-lane highway
Harry Truman was the man who ran the [G]show
The bad Korean was was just begining
And I was just three years too young to [C]go
Country Music hadn't gone to New York City yet
And a service man was proud of what he'd [F]done
Hank and Lefty crowded ev'ry [C]jukebox
[G]That's the way it was in fifty [C]one.

CHORUS

[G]There's so much about the good old days I'd love to [C]tell
And there's folks around I know still remember [G]well
Slow [C]dancin' close together when a ballad played
'Cause a thing called Rock and Roll was yet to [F]come
(It was) a big year for a drive-in rest'rant [C]carhop
[G]That's the way it was in fifty [C]one.

REPEAT CHORUS

Yeah! Hank and Lefty crowded ev'ry jukebox
Oh Lord That's the way it was in fifty one.

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|  Submitted by:                        Gene Graham     |
|  ah827@rgfn.epcc.edu                  El Paso, Texas  |
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