Class Of '58-Al Stewart

[00:02.90]Old jazz guys being interviewed [00:07.25]Thirty years beyond their prime [00:11.22]With memories of road shows [00:14.84]From the Golden Age of Swingtime [00:21.31]The piano player strikes a chord [00:24.16]Leans forward on his stool [00:29.09]And through they've all seen better days [00:32.71]They've got that air of faded cool [00:37.78]It's an entree of another world [00:41.32]One of tailcoats and victrolas [00:45.20]And one day they'll make TV shows [00:49.35]On aging rock and rollers [00:53.93]On aging rock and rollers [01:13.94]Then came the kid with the red Colorama [01:16.07]And the Watkins copycat echo chamber and the toothy grin [01:23.23]With one hand glued to the tremolo arm [01:26.06]While the singer moves around like an Elvis clone [01:27.84]They really packed them in [01:33.15]And every song was short and sweet, and every beat was fast [01:38.52]And every paper in the land said rock-and-roll won't last [01:43.45]You know it just won't last, it's such a rapid burn [01:48.32]And it's a hard, hard, hard lesson to learn [01:53.56]It's a hard, hard, hard lesson to learn [01:58.66]Well what are you going to do when it's all over? [02:02.67]What are you going to do right now? [02:04.11]What are you going to to when it's all over? [02:06.46]Will you get along somehow? [02:08.43]I just don't know,I just don't know [02:13.08]Feeling like I do right now [02:15.97]Ask me tomorrow,Ask me tomorrow [02:21.36]Red guitar, red guitar [02:26.90]You know I really miss that red guitar [02:31.68]Red guitar, red guitar [02:37.62]You know I reallly miss that red guitar [02:41.92]And you can write this on my tombstone [02:44.76]That'll be my fate [02:47.17]I'm a gradute of rock and roll [02:49.67]Class of '58 [02:52.73]And you can write this on my tombstone [02:54.93]That'll be my fate [02:57.34]I'm a gradute of rock and roll [03:00.09]Class of '58 [03:00.09]'58, '58,'58, '58, I'm a graduate of the class of '58 [03:12.77]Red guitar, '58, I'm a graduate of the class of '58 [03:22.94]And there's no use analyzing these anthems that were sung [03:28.29]Rock and roll's not good or bad [03:30.66]It's just the sound of being young [03:33.23]And it's a long long way from pompadours [03:35.96]And doo wop and payola [03:38.47]And one day they'll make TV shows on aging rock-and-rollers [03:43.76]One day they'llmakeTV shows on aging rock-and-rollers.