The World in Black and White


 

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

Depending on the channel you tuned,
You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June.
Andy Griffith and Barney Fife,
Lawrence Welk or This Your Life

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

They were simple folks living a simple life.
The good guys always won the fight.
I wanna' go back to black and white,
Where everything always turned out right.

In God they trusted, in their own bed they slept,
A promise made was a promise kept.
They never cussed or broke a vow,
They'd never make the network now.

Nowadays nothing's the way it seems,
In living color or on the screens.
The good guys don't always win the fight,
Life doesn't always turn out right.

If only I could, I'd rather be
In a TV world of '63.
It felt so good, it 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.

Poem by Steve Vaus
Used by permission

 

 



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