[GeoStL] Ode To Black & White TV

   
Disclaimer:   If you're under 40 you won't get any of this!
 
 You could hardly see for all the snow
 So you'd spread the rabbit ears as far as they'd go
 Pull up a chair to the TV set
 "Good night, David; Good night, Chet."
 
 Depending on the the channel you tuned
 You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June
 It was oh so good and felt so right
 Life looked better in black and white.
 
 Cable was something you used on your car
 When the battery was dead, or you didn't get far
 Nobody'd heard of remote control
 To change the channel you went for a stroll.
 
 Not many channels but always something to see
 Until midnight came and no more TV
 Just a test pattern that shrunk to a dot
 Until 7 am that's all that you got.
 
 I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys
 Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys
 Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train
 Superman, Jimmy and Lois Lane
 
 Patty Duke, Father Knows Best
 Our Miss Brooks and all the rest
 Donna Reed on Thursday night
 Not a dysfunctional family in sight.
 
 I want to go back to black and white
 Everything always turned out right
 Good guys always won the fight
 
 In God they trusted, in bed they slept
 A promise made was a promise kept
 They never cussed or broke their vows
 They'd never make the networks now.
 
 But if I could, I'd rather be
 In a TV town in '53
 Like Mayfair, Pixley or Mayberry
 
 I'd trade all the channels on the satellite
 If I could just turn back the clock tonight
 To when everybody knew wrong from right
 Life was better in black and white. 
 
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