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
CHORUS: Kodachrome give us those nice bright colors give us the greens of summers makes you think all the world's a sunny day I got a Nikon camera I love to take the photographs so momma don't take my kodachrome away
VERSE 2 If you took all the girls I knew when I was single and brought em all together for one night I know they never match my sweet imagination and everything looks worse in black and white
CHORUS: Kodachrome give us those nice bright colors 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 the photographs so momma 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 the things you used to do.
As I was motivatin' over the hill I saw maybellene in a coup de ville. A cadillac a-rollin' on the open road, Nothin' will outrun my v8 ford. The cadillac doin' 'bout ninety-five, She's bumper to bumber rollin' side by side.
Maybellene, why can't you be true? Oh maybellene, why can't you be true? You've started back doing the things you used to do.
Pink in the mirror on top of the hill, It's just like swallowin' up a medicine pill. First thing I saw that cadillac grille Doin' a hundred and ten gallopin' over that hill. Offhill curve, a downhill strecth, Me and that cadillac neck by neck.
Maybellene, why can't you be true? Oh maybellene, why can't you be true? You've started back doing the things you used to do.
The cadillac pulled up ahead of the ford, The ford got hot and wouldn't do no more. It then got clody and it started to rain, I tooted my horn for a passin' lead The rain water blowin' all under my hood, I knew that was doin' my motor good.
Maybellene, why can't you be true? Oh maybellene, why can't you be true? You've started back doing the things you used to do.
The motor cooled down, the heat went down And that's when I heard that highway sound. The cadillac a-sittin' like a ton of lead A hundred and ten a half a mile ahead. The cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' 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 the things you used to do.