The Beatrice Arthur Special | movie | 1980 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

The Beatrice Arthur Special was a prime time U.S. television special broadcast on CBS on January 19, 1980. The productio | dG1fNEtCX190UUtQd0k

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00:00rock can you believe the things that are happening today oh it's pretty crazy all right i mean the

00:07way everyone dresses the lifestyles the the new morality yeah maybe we're getting old look rock

00:15if you can't say anything constructive okay i'm getting old that's constructive

00:21but you're right b yeah it's not the same world we grew up in

00:27for some it's grass some it's oak for some it's powder for some it's smoke everybody today is

00:39turning on for some it's dust for some it's sweet for some it's acid for some it's speed

00:48everybody today is turning on time was when if a fella felt depressed he simply got it off his

01:00chest by calling on a preacher talking to his teacher popping up a half a buck to see a double

01:06feature but now it's pills and now it's pot and now it's poppers and god knows what

01:12the simple life it must have been when smoke was lucky's and i was one pink lady and how it turned

01:30them on junk was trash speed was swift glue was pasted instead of sniff coke and aspirin and wow

01:41it turned them on

01:42those days whenever folks were feeling low they knew that they could get a glow

01:51and chase away the vapor laughing at the cape white and jeff or cotton in the sunday funny papers

01:58but now it's down it goes around your windpipe and up your nose

02:03sniff swig puff and your cares are gone

02:07everybody today is turning on

02:13hey remember when i was up kicks were tame and amyl nitrate was some guy's name holding hands and

02:23smoochin was turning on

02:25horse was ride and roach was bugs french connections were foreign plugs jive and daddy duchin was turning on

02:36down those days when if your nerves were kind of shot instead of going right to pot

02:46you prayed to hold them steady kept a bible ready

02:49to advice from rabbi weiss or very big already with the world so much amiss

02:54how can a whiskey be cannabis sniff swig puff and your cares are temporarily gone

03:02everybody today is pumping

03:15you cut the grass and too much acid just gave you gas

03:21and your cares are temporarily gone

03:25everybody today is pumping

03:30hold it ma don't touch that

03:32puppet god knows what your grandpa's

03:35snuffing

03:36everybody today is turning on