Talkin Reality Television Blues

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[Verse 1]
G
Come gather round and I'll sing you 
a song
C
About a crazy old world that was 
coming along
G
Til one day some fool made the 
decision
D
To turn on the television


[Verse 2]
G
Of course radio reported that we'd 
all ignore it
C
And the paper said we had no time 
for it
G
But before you knew it we knew 
Milton Berle
D
And we all had a new escape from the
 world


[Verse 3]
G
All tuned in and before too soon
C
We were watching a man walk on the 
moon
G
He made it look as easy as driving a
 car
D
Video killed the radio star

I got the talking blues


Continues after the ad
[Verse 4]
G
Talking blues are easy to do
C
All you gotta rhyme is a line or two
G
Rhyme a line or two and then
D
You don't ever have to rhyme 
again...

I can say whatever I want to now...

You know, within reason


[Verse 5]
G
Say sitcom catchphrase game show 
nation
C
Television soon defied explanation
G
As the situation took to such a 
degree
D
That eventually we'd hear about a 
cable TV


[Verse 6]
G
Of course free TV news swore we'd 
ignore it
C
And that your average family could 
never afford it
G
But again they were wrong and 
eventually
D
Everybody wanted their MTV


[Verse 7]
G
We were all tuned in but now the 
shock
C
Was watching a kid do a thing called
 the moonwalk
G
Sliding backwards really was 
eventually too far
D
Reality killed that video star, I 
got the talking blues


[Verse 8]
G
So simple at first it was hard to 
for see
C
The impending collision with reality
G
But it soon seemed TV turned on it 
self
D
When "the real world" came on like 
it was something else


[Verse 9]
G
Of course actors all acted like they
 weren't floored
C
Hoping eventually that we'd all get 
bored
G
But one after another we pretended 
not to act
D
As we hurtled ever forward toward 
alternative facts


[Verse 10]
G
Then a show called the apprentice 
came on and pretty soon
C
An old man with a comb over came 
along and sold us the moon
G
And we stayed tuned in now here we 
are
D
Reality killed by a reality star... 
 I got the talking blues