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 and it felt so right,
life just seemed 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 seemed 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, alone 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 '63.

It felt so good. It felt so right.
Life seemed 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 just seemed better in black and white.

The origin of this look at life in the "good old days" is unknown as it has been around for many years and with many revisions, however who ever wrote the original definitely enjoyed the 50's and 60's era like most of us who grew up in that same time period.

If you have any comments or questions my e-mail address is deh63shs@yahoo.com.