They Don't Make Em Like That Anymore

He still combs his hair like Elvis
 Pays cash for everything
 And he'll only drive a chevy and thinks Alan Jackson's
 king
 He knows everyone by name at the local hardware store
 They don't make 'em like that anymore
 Up with the sun each mornin'
 Hardly missed a day of work
 Summer 1957 he helped build that Lutheran church
 Believes a man should work all week but save Sunday
 for the Lord
 They don't make 'em like that anymore
 Standin' shoulder to shoulder with him now,
 I still feel small
 And I'm still lookin' up to him like he's ten feet tall
 There's somethin about that generation
 These days I think we need 'em
 More than we ever did before
 But they don't make 'em like that anymore
 He married his sweet Mary
 June 1955
 He goes on and on about her
 Her casseroles, her clear blue eyes
 He still helps her with her coat,
 Still opens her car door
 They don't make 'em like that anymore
 Standin' shoulder to shoulder with him now,
 I still feel small
 And I'm still lookin up to him like he's ten feet tall
 There's somethin' about that generation
 These days I think we need 'em
 More than we ever did before
 But they don't make 'em like that anymore
 There's somethin about that generation
 These days I think we need 'em
 More than we ever did before
 Yeah that's for sure
 But they don't make 'em like that anymore
 He still combs his hair like Elvis
 Pays cash for everything...