Hank Williams boasted ‘I got a hot rod Ford and a two dollar bill’ – what other songs have been deflated by inflation?

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Two dollars' worth of fun … Hank Williams. Photograph: Redferns
Two dollars' worth of fun … Hank Williams. Photograph: Redferns Photograph: Rb/RB/REDFERNS

Hank Williams’s Hey, Good Lookin has the line, “I got a hot rod Ford and a two dollar bill … so if you wanna have fun, come along with me”. Any other songs that inflation has made out of date?

John Richards, Oxford

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