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From: plrlegal
Date: 07-11-2003, 03:09 PM (1 of 4)
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> Black and White (If you're under age 40? You may not understand!.) > > 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. It 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 and 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 nothing is the way it seems, > In living color on the TV screen. > Too many murders, too many fights, > 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. 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! > > Pass this to someone (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day by > helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasure are very often the best. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: sewingrandma
Date: 07-11-2003, 09:07 PM (2 of 4)
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Patsy, loved it. Sent it on to all my friends that can remember those days. Remember Lucy and Ricky had twin beds!
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
Member since: 03-06-2003 Total posts: 432 |
From: MaryW
Date: 07-12-2003, 02:03 PM (3 of 4)
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And women wore dresses doing housework. LOL
MaryW
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User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: Llantrisant
Date: 07-12-2003, 07:08 PM (4 of 4)
Thats lovely thank you for sharing with us. Times did seem simpler then i must agree.
If at first you don't suceed, try-try again!
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User: Llantrisant
Member since: 06-02-2002 Total posts: 144 
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