boy the way consumers paid,
wars that made the hit parade,
guys like us we had it made,
those were the days,
and you know where you were then,
girls were girls and men were men,
mister we could use a man like Richard Nixon again,
didn’t need no welfare state
everybody pulled his weight,
gee our oil wells ran great,
those were the days!

(With apologies to All in the Family.)