July 23, 2013

Making Thunderbirds: "The big line moved one mile an hour / So loud it really hurt "

The big line moved one mile an hour
So loud it really hurt
The big line moved so loud
It really hurt
Back in '55
We were makin' Thunderbirds

We filled conveyors
We met production
Foremen didn't waste words
We met production
Foremen didn't waste words
We were young and proud
We were makin' Thunderbirds

We were makin' Thunderbirds
We were makin' Thunderbirds
They were long and low and sleek and fast
They were all you ever heard
Back in '55
We were makin' Thunderbirds

Now the years have flown and the plants have changed
And you're lucky if you work
The big line moves but you're lucky if you work
Back in '55
We were makin' Thunderbirds

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 23, 2013 1:59 PM
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What a weird coincidence: just today i was thinking about that line "You're lucky if you work"...
When you have teenagers these days you have to be thinking about what they're gonna do to work, since there's so few jobs... and here in socal if you don't speak spanish there's hardly ANY. God what a difference from when i grew up...

Posted by: DAve at July 24, 2013 2:59 AM

What a weird coincidence: just today i was thinking about that line "You're lucky if you work"...
When you have teenagers these days you have to be thinking about what they're gonna do to work, since there's so few jobs... and here in socal if you don't speak spanish there's hardly ANY. God what a difference from when i grew up...

Posted by: DAve at July 24, 2013 2:59 AM

What a weird coincidence: just today i was thinking about that line "You're lucky if you work"...
When you have teenagers these days you have to be thinking about what they're gonna do to work, since there's so few jobs... and here in socal if you don't speak spanish there's hardly ANY. God what a difference from when i grew up...

Posted by: DAve at July 24, 2013 3:03 AM

I was talking to my brother yesterday and telling him how sad I feel about what has become of Detroit. My home town, the place I grew up and the auto industry that was so good to me and my family over the years. I'm so grateful that I was there in those days to experience and work in that wonderful industry that gave a kid from 23rd and Bagley (inner city) an opportunity to move from there into an affluent mid-class with all the benefits I still enjoy today. Now there are so few jobs that young people like I was back in the sixties have very little chance to even find a real job. God what a sad difference from when I grew up.

Posted by: Gordon Scott at July 24, 2013 4:16 AM