text: Excerpt from Talking Union Words by Lee Hayes, Millard Lampell and Pete Seeger - inspired by Woody Guthries Talking Dustbowl. Talking Union ©1958 Stormking Music, Inc., BMI
  Lately Ive been picking up strange vibrations
  I hear my music now on oldies stations
  Put out a CD called the best of what I was
  My pictures on the cover and no one knows
  Just when you think youve got the wisdom of the ages
  Nobody seems to want to turn your pages
  I used to think I was the cats pajamas
  Now Im about as hip as Fernando Lamas
   Old enough
  Old enough to be your father
  Old enough
  Old enough 
  And now my kids are taking me to the shows
  Theres hip-hop, rap, grunge music I dont know
  I like to think Im still part of the crowd
  But, how can they hear the lyrics
  When the music is so loud?!
  I dig rock and roll music
  But I wonder if you knew
  That rhythm & blues begat the rock and roll style?
  And just like that, way before rap
  Woody Guthrie spread the news
  He told it straight, let us relate
  This Talking Union Blues:
  Well if you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do
  Youve got to talk to the workers in the shop with you
  You got to build you a union, got to make it strong
  But if you all stick together, boys, it wont be long
  You get shorter hours, better working conditions
  Vacations with pay, take the kids to the seashore
  Well I remember I was seventeen
  I was a Birmingham High School rock and roll king
  The paper talked about how Id strut my stuff
  Id like to read it, but my arms arent long enough
  I kinda like my new senior status
  I dont even care what the latest fad is
  My g-generations rediscovered me
  And now Im on the cover of modern maturity