[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

How about 1967?

There’s a Southern Bell Telephone Company in our town Every afternoon I’m right there hangin’ around Bound telephone operators walkin’ up and down the street Any fool could figure out what I’m glad to see

Oh I’m watchin’ the belles of the Southern Bell go by Swingin’ their hips and rollin’ their pretty eyes Fine high heels stickin’ make me start to kickin’ my heels up to the sky Watchin’ the belles of the Southern Bell go by

They say that them lines gonna be much shorty this year This sounds like mighty sweet music to my year I wouldn’t have you to thinkin’ that I’m the wrong kinda guy I just sorta gotta knife for the funner things of life

I’m watchin’ the belles of the Southern Bell go by... Yeah I’m watchin’ the belles of the Southern Bell go by Doo da doo doo doo doo doo da doo doo doo

[elcid1970]

I remember 1967 (I was 18). That June the Israelis kicked the h*** out of the Ayrab armies, and there was a song called “Music to Watch Girls By”.

Miniskirts made it easy for gals to walk with the long confident stride which that tune suggested.

Does anyone remember when “girl” was considered the polite term for females age 18-25? I do.