I Don't Know What's Happened to the Kids Today

I don't know what's happened to the kids today

We were different from the kids today in every way

We didn't have none of this crazy music

We didn't have none of these crazy clothes

We didn't have guys getting high on the doorstep

We didn't have none of those, no, no

I don't care for these long-haired guys

They need a good bath, they got shifty eyes

They're either sleeping in the park, begging in the street

Or they're speeding 'round town in a Lotus Elitе

Where'd they get thе money from anyway?

I can't say that I fought for kids like you in the war

I fought for kids like the kids I thought you'd be

That's who I was fighting for

Put you all in the army, that's what I'd do

Short back and sides, make men of you

Willie's my boy, he's been good up 'til now

But last night he said, "I'm gonna make it on my own somehow

Going off with my friends on the road awhile, get away from you

You can drop dead, that's what you can do"

I would have thought that after 55 years

A body could expect some kind of respect from the kids today

I don't know what's happened to the kids today

I don't know what's happened to the kids today

I don't know what's happened to the kids today

I don't know what's happened to the kids today

I don't know what's happened to the kids today

I don't know what's happened to the kids today

I don't know what's happened to the kids today