Tele-Vee-Shun chords by Stan Freberg

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Verse 1
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here we go master 16 ,668
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take 8 I'm sick of it
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Em 
I'm sick of it
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Em 
hey mr. general public do you realize
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that we got a generation here of
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staring eyes.
The women never bother
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getting housework done.
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They just sit around gawking at television.
The kiddies never run and
Em 
playing out of door.
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On top of that,
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they never reading books no more.
You ask them,
Em 
who's the father of our countryman?
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They say it was either
Walt
Disney or
Ed
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Sullivan.
Em 
Oh, television, television,
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I'm sick from looking on
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television.
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I got the weak in the eyes, weak in the head likewise,
Em 
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from sitting and looking on television.
Em 
The burglar comes sneaking in and break the latch,
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while grandma she is looking on the
wrestling match.
She throws him on the floor,
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Em 
although she's ninety years old.
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She says, I got him with a step over toe hold.
I turn on
Elvis
Em 
Presley and my daughter scream.
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I fear she have a nervous
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breakdown cause of him.
I wonder why he wiggle
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-waggles to the beat.
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As a boy, he must have had
a loose bicycle seat.
Em 
Oh, television, television.
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I am sick from looking on television.
I got the weak in the eyes,
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weak in the head likewise,
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from sitting and looking on
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television.
Em 
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Em 
The children of the country eat their dinner,
you bet.
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But they eat it sitting in front of the
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TV set.
They got pudding in their ears
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from the north to the south,
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from eating while watching
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and missing their mouth.
Em 
Last night, a very unusual thing occurred.
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The baby, he is saying his very first word.
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I have him on my shoulder for
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Em 
to make him burp.
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Instead, he open his mouth and say,
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Wyatt
Earp.
Em 
Oh, television, television,
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I'm sick of it.
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Television, television.
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I watch the late, late movie,
Em 
then I climb the stairs, get
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into bed, and have television nightmares,
complete with bad
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commercials that repeat all night,
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both incompatible color
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and black and white.
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Em 
Someday my son grow up and want to go  to sea,
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so he
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probably go and try to join
US
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Navy.
They give him aptitude test, now
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Here's the rub,
Em 
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they find him best suited for watching
Mickey
Mouse
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Club.
Em 
Oh, television, television,
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I'm sick from looking on
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television.
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I got a weak in the eyes,
G 
weak in the head, likewise, from
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sitting and looking on.
Sing it again, mon.
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Em 
Television, television,
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I'm sick from looking on
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television.
G 
I got a weak in the eyes, weak in the head,
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likewise, from
I'm sitting and looking at television