[GeoStL] Re: Ode To Black & White TV

AMEN.
PS, I remember and I'm only 38.

Barramus
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: GC-RGS 
  To: GC-maillist 
  Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 4:23 PM
  Subject: [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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