Don McLean - 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' outta 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'