Say Dad

Mmm yes kids

We'd like to have a heart to heart talk

Oh oh have you spoken to your mother yet

No Dad we wanna ask you

Well I guess you're both old enough

What we wanna know is

What did they do before rock 'n' roll

Ah ha

How'd they ever make it

Bless my soul

All day long they had to listen to

Ah ha

My time is your time

What did they do before Elvis Pee

Ah ha

Fabian and Avalon and Brenda Lee

All they heard on the radio was

May the blue of the light make the buh buh buh boom

I found some ancient records

Ah doo wah

From nineteen forty five

Ah doo wah

I put a couple on the phonograph

Laughed

Laughed ha ha ha ha ha ha

Oh well I thought I'd die

Now let me tell you Dad

It was an awful sound

To hear what twenty seven cats

Were puttin' down

I couldn't believe my ears

It was a shock to me

'Cause all that they were playin'

Was the melody

They had a thing called swing

They didn't have no beat

That rikki tikki music never move my feet

And then I played your records

Strangest thing I heard

I know you'll think I'm goofy

But I'm pretty swerve

They didn't twang guitars

I meant like it was sad

And tell me

What's a Hugo Winterhalter Dad

Oh well I felt so poor

For those old time souls

Ah ha

They never had the benefit

Of rock 'n' roll

All they heard on the radio was

Ah ha

Doo fal dee ooh boop boop pee doo ooh

Oh no