The Days of Black and White
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”
Depending 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, Lois Lane,
Father Knows Best, Patty Duke,
Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too,
Donna Reed on Thursday night.
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’s the way it seems
In living color or on the screen.
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 the ’50s.
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 turn back the clock tonight
To when everybody knew wrong from right
Life was better in black and white.
– Shared by Emmie Miller