Video Kodachrome Maybellene de Alan Freed 2025 Lyrics Lyrics

Alan Freed - Kodachrome Maybellene Lyrics

[Part I: Kodachrome]

[Verse 1]
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall

[Chorus]
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

[Verse 2]
If you took all the girls I knew when I was single
Brought 'em all together for one night
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
Everything looks better in black and white

[Chorus]
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
[Post-Chorus]
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

[Outro]
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
And leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome, woo
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

[Part II: Maybellene]

[Chorus]
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started right doin' those things you used to do

[Verse 1]
As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coupe de Ville
Cadillac rollin' on the open road
Yeah, but nothing outrace my V8 Ford
Cadillac doin' about ninety-five
Bumper to bumper and side to side
[Chorus]
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started right doin' those things you used to do

[Verse 2]
The heat cooled down, the motor cooled down
That's when I heard that highway sound
Cadillac sittin' like a ton of lead
About a hundred and ten half a mile ahead
Cadillac lookin' like it's standin' still
And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill

[Chorus]
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started right doin' those things you used to do

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Oh, Maybellene, can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started right doin' those things you used to do, yeah
You done started right doin' those things you used to do
You done started right doin' those things you used to do