[GeoStL] Re: Ode To Black & White TV

Yes, but you're an OLD 38!

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barramus 
  To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 4:29 PM
  Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Ode To Black & White TV


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

  Barramus
  N   38° 25.081'
  W 90° 42.823'


    ----- 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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