Mickey Newbury - That Was the Way It Was Then lyrics

Do the cowboys still sit with their backs to the wall Do the drifters still answer the highwaymans call And do the old hobos still cook their beans in a tin Do the sailors still cast their fates to the wind Are the villians in black hats are the heros in white Are there sock-hoppin' rock and rollin' Saturday nights Would a '49 Mercury still be outta sight Well that was the way it was then You were like Natalie I was James Dean Slow walkin' soft talkin' silently mean Surely that rebel in me lives again But now without a cause to be all caught up in Oh the blacks have their freedom and the reds are our friends And we've ended a war we could not seem to win And the Folk singers' out on his a** once again My how the times they have changed Its a quarter to ten and I'm lyin' in bed Spinnin' that old memory thing in my head The times were so good and the songs were so sad It was a game we would play feellin' good feelin' bad And theres a girl I remember now what was her name Why we made love one night in a hell of a rain Well maybe ten minutes how time then would fly It will never be that way again