Key: B major•
Verse 1
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You will not be able to stay home brother.
You will not be able to plug in,
turn on, and cop out.
You will not be able to lose
yourself on Skag
and skip out for beer
during commercials because
The Revolution will not be televised.
The Revolution will not be
brought to you
by Xerox in four parts
without commercial
interruptions.
The Revolution will not show you
pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle
and leading a charge
by John Mitchell, General Abrams,
and Spyro
Agnew to eat hog was confiscated
from a Harlem sanctuary.
The Revolution will not be brought to you
by the Schaefer Award Theater
and will not star Natalie Wood and Steve
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McQueen or Bullwinkle an d Juliet.
The Revolution will not give your
mouth sex appeal.
The Revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
because
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brother.
The Revolution will not
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be televised!
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pushing that shopping cart
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down the block on the dead run
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into a stolen ambulance.
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NBC will not be able to predict the winner at 8
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.32 on re ports from 29 districts.
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The Revolution will not be televised.
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The Revolution will
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not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs
shooting down brothers
on the instant replay
There will be no pictures
of Whitney Young
being run out of Harlem
on a rail with a brand
There will be no slow -motion or
still -life of Rory Wilkins
strolling through Watts
in a red, black,
and green liberation jumpsuit
that he had been saving
for just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, the Beverly Hillbillies,
and Hooterville Junction
will no longer be so damn relevant,
and women will not care
if Dick finally screwed Jane
on Search for Tomorrow
because black people will be
in the streets
looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
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There will be no highlights
on the 11 o 'clock news and no pictures
of hairy -armed women liberationists
and Jackie Onassis blowing
her nose.
The theme song will not
be written by Jim Webb
or Francis Scott Key,
nor sung by Glen Campbell,
Tom Jones,
Johnny Cash,
Engelbert Humperdinck, or The Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be
televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
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The revolution will not be right back
after a message about a white tornado,
white lightning,
or white people.
You will not have to worry
about a dove in your bedroom,
the tiger in your tank,
or a giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with coke.
The revolution will not fight germs
that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will not be televised.
will not be televised,
will not be televised,
will not be televised.
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The revolution will be no rerun, brothers.
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