Todd Snider – Talkin Reality Television Blues (Guitar)

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 D Run (this Is What I Do Anyway)
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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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

G
Then a show called the apprentice came on and pretty soon

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An old man with a comb over came along and sold us the moon

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And we stayed tuned in now here we are

D
Reality killed by a reality star...  I got the talking blues