[00:22.75]Excerpt from "Talking Union"
[00:24.19]Words by Lee Hayes,
[00:26.37]Millard Lampell and Pete
[00:27.62]Seeger - inspired by
[00:28.81]Woody Guthrie's "Talking Dustbowl".
[00:30.06]"Talking Union" ?1958 Stormking Music,
[00:31.68]Inc., BMI Lately
[00:32.55]I've been picking up strange vibrations
[00:34.49]I hear my music now on oldies stations
[00:36.61]"Put out a CD called "the best of what I was"
[00:39.67]My picture's on the cover and no one knows
[00:42.29]Just when you think you've got the wisdom of the ages
[00:45.41]Nobody seems to want to turn your pages
[00:47.65]I used to think I was the cat's pajamas
[00:50.21]Now I'm about as hip as
[00:51.84]Fernando Lamas
[00:52.96]Old enough Old enough to be your father
[00:55.39]Old enough Old enough then
[00:57.39]And now my kids are taking me to the shows
[01:00.13]There's hip-hop, rap, grunge music
[01:01.57]I don't know I like to think I'm still part of the crowd
[01:05.50]But, how can they hear the lyrics
[01:07.56]When the music is so loud?!
[01:09.24]I dig rock and roll music been saying that for a
[01:13.05]But I wonder if you knew
[01:14.73]That rhythm & blues begat the rock and roll style?
[01:17.61]And just like that, way before rap,
[01:19.66]Woody Guthrie spread the news
[01:21.16]He told it straight, let us relate
[01:23.35]This Talking Union Blues:
[01:24.53]Well if you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do
[01:28.28]You've got to talk to the workers in the shop with you
[01:31.83]You got to build you a union, got to make it strong
[01:35.26]But if you all stick together, boys, it won't be long
[01:38.51]You get shorter hours, better working conditions
[01:40.51]Vacations with pay, take the kids to the seashore
[01:43.13]Well I remember I was seventeen
[01:44.81]I was a Birmingham High School rock and roll king
[01:48.37]The paper talked about how
[01:49.74]I'd strut my stuff I'd like to read it,
[01:52.24]but my arms aren't long enough
[01:54.11]I kinda like my new senior status
[01:56.23]I don't even care what the latest fad is
[01:59.04]My g-generation's rediscovered me
[02:00.16]And now I'm on the cover of modern maturity