Old ways, it sure is hard to change 'em   Come what may   It's hard to teach a dinosaur a new trick   Lately I've been finding out   I'm set in my ways   Old ways, can be your ball and chain.      Oh, I'm gonna stop that grass   And give up all this drinking   Really gonna make my life last   Clean up my whole way of living   Up until the party last night   I was a different man   But old ways got their way again.      The economy was getting so bad   I had to lay myself off   Well, working was a habit I had   So I kept showin' up anyway   Then one day things turned around   I got my back pay   Old ways comin' through again.      I got old ways.