In Color

I said, Grandpa what's this picture here

It's all black and white and ain't real clear

Is that you he said, yeah I was eleven

Times were tough back in thirty-five

That's me and Uncle Joe just tryin' to survive

A cotton farm in the Great Depression

And if it looks

like we were scared to death

Like a couple of kids

just trying to save each other

You should have seen it in color

This one here

was taken overseas

In the middle of hell

in nineteen forty-three

In the winter time

you can almost see my breath

That was my tail gunner

ole' Johnny McGee

He was a high school teacher

from New Orleans

And he had my back right

through the day we left

And if it looks

like we were scared to death

Like a couple of kids

just trying to save each other

You should have seen it in color

A picture's worth a thousand words

But you can't see what those shades

of gray keep covered

You should have seen it in color

This one is my favorite one

It's me and grandma in the summer sun

All dressed up the day we said our vows

You can't tell it here

but it was hot that June

That rose was red and her eyes were blue

And just look at that smile I was so proud

That's the story of m life

Right there in black and white

And if it looks

like we were scared to death

Like a couple of kids

just trying to save each other

You should have seen it in color

A picture's worth a thousand words

But you can't see what those shades

of gray keep covered

You should have seen it in color