Talking Reality Television Blues chords by Tom Jones

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

♫ Intro:

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♫ Verse 1:

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Well, come gather around and I'll sing you a song
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About a crazy old world that's coming along
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'Til one day some fool made the decision
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To turn on the television
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Of course, radio reported we'd all ignore it
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Paper said we'd have no time for it
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But before you knew it, you knew Milton Berle
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And we all had a new escape from the world
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All tuned in, before too soon
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We were watching a man walk on the moon
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He made it look as easy as driving a car
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Video killed the radio star
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I got the talking blues


♫ Interlude:

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♫ Verse 2:

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Talking blues is easy to do
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All you gotta do is rhyme a line or two
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Rhyme a line or two and then
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You don't even have to rhyme again
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See? I can say anything I want to now
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Well, you know, within reason

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♫ Verse 3:

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Say sitcom, catchphrase, game show nation
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Television soon defied explanation
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As the situation took to such a degree
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That eventually we all heard about cable TV
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Of course, free TV news swore we'd ignore it
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But the average family could never afford it
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But again they were wrong, eventually
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Everybody wanted their MTV
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We were all tuned in, but now the shock
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Watching a kid do a thing called the "moonwalk"
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Sliding backwards really was eventually too far
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Reality killed that video star
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I got the talking blues


♫ Interlude:

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♫ Verse 4:

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So simple at first, it was hard to foresee
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The impending collision with reality
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But it soon seemed TV turned on itself
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When "The Real World" came on like it was somethin' else
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Of course, actors all acted like they weren't floored
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Hoping eventually that we'd all get bored
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But one after the another we pretended not to act
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As we hurdled ever forward towards alternative facts
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Then a show called "The Apprentice" came on and pretty soon

An old man with a comb-over had sold us the moon
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We stayed tuned in, now here we are
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Reality killed by a reality star
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I got the talking blues

♫ Outro:

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 Hills, that is

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