Back In '64 Lyrics - Singles - The Rutles

Many years from now 

When your grandchildren climb up on your knee 

You may be quite astonished to see 

How many channels they can change on TV 

When some old film in black and white 

Comes on and there you are up on the screen 

Or is it someone just like someone you've been 

Looking not a day over nineteen 

"Granddad", the little ones are asking you 

"Why do you look so sad?" 

So you tell them all about the fun you had 

"Back in '64, before you were born 

People had no time for pouring scorn 

(Or scoring porn) 

On dreams of love and peace, no one was obese 

Only tight trousers were worn" 

"Back in '64, we were at it like knives 

Back in '64, the time of our lives 

Was in the present tense 

Now, does that make common sense? 

Any more than girls with hair-dos called beehives?" 

Back in '64, before you were born 

Back in '64, before you were born 

But as you've gone on and on 

Your audience has flown 

And as you find yourself all on your own 

You may wistfully recall 

How Benjamin Disraeli said that 

Life is too short to be small 

Or maybe like some old time song 

Over all it's long so, so long, it's all over