Cool Baby Cool

Not too many can

Be cool as the great old

50’s rockers

Buddy Holly

Chuck Berry

Eddie Cochran

All so very alright

In my book

Right now

I have a

Carl Perkins

45

Playing

Honey Don’t

On the turntable

With the record going

Around under that

Very expensive needle

I purchased for this reason:

To hear my old time tunes

As clearly as possible

Without giving up

The pops and cracks

That CD’s always leave out

It’s over too quickly though

As I have to rise from my chair

And flip over the single

It’s time to play

B-sides

Good old music

Cannot be beat

If you ask me

Give me a crusty old record

Over a compact disc any day

As the grease in my hair hardens

And I bounce around this room

Looking at myself in the

Full length mirror

Trying desperately to be

Cool

But I fail

I was a child of the 80’s

Unfortunately

When Mousse

Replaced Brylcream

And Jordash jeans

Took on the coolness of

Levis with a white t-shirt

Oh, to be born in

1939

Now that would have been

Something

I was thirty years too late

But thanks to my father

I have a whopping 6 boxes full

Of old records from the

50’s

And they shaped me

Helped make me the

Man I am now

I pull off my

Sun Records shirt

Kill the lights

And get into bed

As the music plays

Like every night

Before

And certainly

After

This night is finished.