TELL ME ‘BOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS By Kathy Polich
Oh, Grandpa, tell me ‘bout the good old days Grandpa, everything is changing fast We call it I was sitting in the drive-up at Route 66 Diner waiting progress, but I just don’t know for my breakfast burrito, scanning radio channels. And Grandpa, let’s wander back into the past And pain st me the picture of long ago One of my all-time favorite groups came on. I was immediately in 1985, and Wynonna and her momma For a few seconds, my brain scanned a ton of were singing: memories. It was like watching a video in fast forward. Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days) by The I thought about seeing the Judds on Johnny Carson Judds Grandpa, tell me ‘bout the good old days when I was in mid-school. I recalled the three times Sometimes it feels like this world’s gone crazy And I had seen them in concert. I smiled to myself when Grandpa, take me back to yesterday When the line I briefly thought about my dad at his first and only between right and wrong big concert. My dad had a thing for Naomi. He was a railroader and had worked the entire night and all day Didn’t seem so hazy right up to when we had to leave Belen to make it to the Pit in Albuquerque. I thought he was going to miss Did lovers really fall in love to stay it. It was a huge feat to get him to agree to go. Long And stand beside each other, come what may? Was a before buying tickets online, I had spent the night promise really something people kept in line at a Ticketmaster to score 2nd-row seats for the Judd’s Farewell tour. My tired hilly-billy dad fell Not just something they would say and then forget asleep during the opening acts of Mark Chestnutt and Did families really bow their heads to pray Vince Gil. At least that’s who I think the opening was. When the house lights came on for them to fix the stage Did daddies really never go away? for the main event, he popped up and yelled, “Did I miss her?!”
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56 March 2021
