[SOC] Black and White

[Hank Kohl K8DD]

  Black and white - An ode to times long gone
  (Under 40.....you won't understand).


  You could hardly see for all the snow,
  Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
  Pull up a chair to the TV set,
  "Good night, David; Good night, Chet".

  Dependin' on the channel you tuned
  You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June.
  It felt so good, felt so right.
  Life looked better in black and white.

  I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys
  Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys
  Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train
  Superman, Jimmy & Lois Lane.

  Father Knows Best, Patty Duke
  Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too,
  Donna Reed on Thursday night--
  Life looked better in black and white.

  I wanna go back to black and white.
  Everything always turned out right
  Simple people, simple lives
  Good guys always won the fights

  Now nothin is the way it seems
  In living color on the TV screen.
  Too many murders, too much fight,
  I wanna go back to black and white.

  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 network now.

  But if I could, I'd rather be
  In a TV town in '53.
  It felt so good, felt so right
  Life looked better in black and white.

  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!