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the association - wasn't it a bit like now ("live" version) lyrics

[intro, spoken]
we’d like to do a number which compares two years in the form of a comparison song
it compares the year 1923 and the present and makes a great many, uh
sometimes they’re comparisons, sometimes they’re opposites
but all in all, the two years relate together
for instance, in ’23, uh, the fashion was bell+bottom pants, shorts skirts, uh, girls didn’t wear any bras
today, it’s heading that way
uh, in those days, in those days (alright), cool it, you
in those days alcohol was illegal, and marihuana was legal
today, marihuana is illegal, alcohol is legal some placеs
uh, in those days we werе at war in the east
today we’re at war in the east
all in all, it proves something that eisenhower once said
eisenhower said “things are more like they are today than they’ve ever been before” (that’s right)
your probably heard nixon quote him, right? (that’s right)
like someone once said, “there’s good news, and there’s bad news, and there’s agnews”

(one, two)

(two, three, four)

[verse 1]
silly bubbles effervesce
in the mothball smell of a beaded dress
the “oh, you kids”, the marathon
the bathtub gin, hungover dawn
[verse 2]
a round+framed picture, a flat straw hat
the long+nosed roadster and a mile and then a flat
the bell+bottom pants, the fine silk vest
are all tucked away in a cedar chest

[chorus]
ah+ha+ha, ah+ha+ha
ah+ha+ha+ha+ha+ha, ah+ah, ah+ah
wasn’t it a bit like now?
huh, mom? huh, dad?
whack+a+doo, whack+a+doo, rah+rah
the mem’ries really gone?
gone are the best darn times
i bet you ever had
instead of “groovy” it was “bean”
and “jeepers, it’s wild”
it just doesn’t seem that different now
the whys are the same, it’s just a question of how
but doesn’t it seem a little bit like now?
i pose this question to your archin’ brow
huh, mom? huh, dad? (goodly)

[verse 3]
cosmetic progress intensifies
cool look in my baby’s eyes
the far+out kids, the kicks they’re on now
obsolete sins, new world’s dawn
[verse 4]
three pictures for a quarter in your carnaby hat
jet+propelled cars on the bonneville flats
slender legs in their paisley best
all tucked away in her minidress

[chorus]
ah+ha+ha, ah+ha+ha
ah+ha+ha+ha+ha+ha+ha, ha+ha
wasn’t it a bit like now?
huh, mom? huh, dad? (huh, dad? huh, dad?)
are all the mem’ries really gone?
gone are the best darn times
i bet you ever had
instead of “groovy” it was “bean”
and “jeepers, it’s wild”
it just doesn’t seem that different now
the whys are the same, it’s just a question of how, ah
doesn’t it seem a little bit like now?
i pose this question to your archin’ brow
huh, mom? (huh, mom?) huh, dad?

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