BLACK AND WHITE

Submitted by Nancy Amos

You could hardly see for all the snow,

Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.

Pull a chair up 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.

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!