Merle Haggard - The Way In Was In '51 guitar chord

(C)Sixty-Six was still a narrow two-lane highway

Harry Truman was the man who ran the (G)show

The bad Korean was was just begining

And I was just three years too young to (C)go

Country Music hadn't gone to New York City yet

And a service man was proud of what he'd (F)done

Hank and Lefty crowded ev'ry (C)jukebox

(G)That's the way it was in fifty (C)one.

CHORUS

(G)There's so much about the good old days I'd love to (C)tell

And there's folks around I know still remember (G)well

Slow (C)dancin' close together when a ballad played

'Cause a thing called Rock and Roll was yet to (F)come

(It was) a big year for a drive-in rest'rant (C)carhop

(G)That's the way it was in fifty (C)one.

REPEAT CHORUS

Yeah! Hank and Lefty crowded ev'ry jukebox

Oh Lord That's the way it was in fifty one.