[GeoStL] Re: Ode To Black & White TV

Speak up, I can't hear too well !

Barramus
N   38° 25.081'
W 90° 42.823'


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: GC-RGS 
  To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 4:33 PM
  Subject: [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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