Quarter in a payphone

 

Drying laundry on the line

 

Watching Sun Tea in the window

 

Pocket watch tellin time

 

Seems like only yesterday I'd get a blank cassette

 

Record the country countdown cause 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 a tree

 

 

 

[Chorus]

 

Hey, whatever happened to waitin your turn

 

Doing it all by hand

 

Cause when everything is handed to you

 

It's only worth as much as the time put in

 

It all just seemed so good the way we had it

 

Back before everything became automatic

 

 

 

[Verse 2]

 

If you had something to say

 

You'd write it on a piece of paper

 

Then 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

 

 

 

[Chorus]

 

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn

 

Doing it all by hand

 

Cause when everything is handed to you

 

It's only worth as much as the time put in

 

It all just seemed so good the way we had it

 

Back before everything became automatic

 

 

 

[Post-Chorus]

 

Automatic

 

 

 

[Bridge]

 

Let's pull the windows down

 

Windows with the cranks

 

Come on let's take a picture

 

The kind you gotta shake

 

 

 

[Chorus]

 

Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turn

 

Doing it all by hand

 

Cause when everything is handed to you

 

It's only worth as much as the time put in

 

It all just seemed so good the way we had it

 

Back before everything became automatic