Don Mclean Color Tv Blues Lyrics

Color Tv Blues Lyrics

I got a color TV for a limited time.
and you can have it by tonight, it'll
bend your mind.
I wouldn't just sell it to an ordinary fool,
y' have to
be sure that the fool has cool.
Since you look like a man with heart and
soul.
If you buy it from me now, you get a free mixing bowl.

I'll
even let you have a little button I' got
that says "have a nice
day", you're gonna like it a lot.

Popular music is the national
craze.
Rock and Roll stars have the kids in a daze.
But twist the knob
around for a different point of view
and you'll twist that knob till it
comes unscrewed.
There's only one song that the TV sings and
that's
Pennies From Heaven, while the register rings.

So it's easy to
see, right from the start
that what makes good money, makes good
art.

Now did you read the encyclical that's written by the
Pope
sayin' folks with private property just got no hope.
The rich ain't
welcome in the heavenly Palladium,
but the Knights of Columbus own Yankee
Stadium.
Now I ain't sayin' that the Pope was wrong
but he can easily
afford to sing that song.

If you'd like to call him up when you need
some dough,
his number's Et Cum Spiri 2 2 0

The kids that fought the
war are livin' outa state
and the CIA is runnin' things of late.
When we
elect a man, we put him on the spot,
'cause if he don't play ball, he might
get shot.
The national security keeps it from the voters,
'cause what's
good for America isn't good for General Motors.

We went and found
ourselves some mighty strange lovers.
The kind that like to blow from
underneath the covers.

Well millions can avoid with Dr Sigmund
Freud
those realities of life that tend to make me paranoid.
Lookin' for
the answer just gives me indigestion
I spent so much time, just dealin' with
the question.
We'd rather talk of dollars and forget about events
when
what we have to decide is; Does it all make sense?

Well everybody's
happy, I saw it on the news,
but me, I' got a case of color TV
blues.

You know, just 'cause you're paranoid
doesn't mean they're not
trying t' get ya'