Compositions For The Young & Old Lyrics - Workbook - Bob Mould

Found a book of interest the other day 

Compositions for the young and old to sing 

Poems written many years ago 

They told of family and hope and other things 

Put together in the old days 

When fifteen cents, it was a buck 

Thats when five would get you ten 

Before it took you eight just to get you one 

Some people, they dont care 

When theyre down on their luck 

Cheap thrills are awful, hard to find these days 

No one is amused for free 

Someones pulling on your mamas apron strings 

Youd better run and see who it is 

Playing cards with your neighbors on the back porch 

Singing with an old beat-up guitar 

Going to the local swimming hole 

Until they closed it down, now theres nowhere to go 

Things used to be so simple long time ago 

Now everything is so expensive and complicated 

I hear you need a license 

For just about anything 

Used to be that 

A handshake was a mans word 

Now we settle arguments in court 

No one trusts anyones intentions anymore 

Rummaging through the attic when Im home 

It brings back those memories to me 

Id amuse myself when I was small 

When I was younger the simplest things would do 

Now Im on everybodys mailing list 

For things I cant afford to buy 

I hear the weatherman 

He says, "It looks like rain for a while" 

I guess Ill have to stay inside 

Make peanut butter sandwiches and cry