When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school

It's a wonder I can think at all

And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none

I can read the writing on the wall



Kodachrome

They give us those nice bright colors

They give us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So Mama don't take my Kodachrome away



If you took all the girls I knew when I was single

And brought them all together for one night

I know they'd never match my sweet imagination

Everything looks better in black and white



Kodachrome

They give us those nice bright colors

They give us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away



Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away



Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Leave your boy so far from home

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away



Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away



Maybellene, why can't you be true?

Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?

You've started back doing those things you used to do



As I was motorvatin' over the hill

I saw Maybellene in a Coup de Ville

A Cadillac rollin' on the open road

But nothing will outrace my V8 Ford

The Cadillac doin' 'bout ninety-five

Bumper to bumper and side by side



Maybellene, why can't you be true?

Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?

You've started back doing those things you used to do



The heat cooled down, the motor cooled down

That's when I heard that highway sound

The Cadillac sittin' like a ton of lead

Hundred and ten half a mile ahead

The Cadillac lookin' like it's standin' still

And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill



Maybellene, why can't you be true?

Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?

You've started back doing those things you used to do



Maybellene, why can't you be true?

Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?

You've started back doing those things you used to do