When I think back on all the crap I’ve learned in high school It’s a wonder I can think at all     Though my lack of education hasn’t hurt me much I can read the writings on the walls  Kodachrome they give us those nice bright colours  They give us the greens of summers  Makes you think all the world is a sunny day oh yeah  I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph  So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away                                 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  Kodachrome they give us those nice bright colours  They give us the greens of summers  Makes you think all the world is a sunny day oh yeah  I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph  So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away         Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away  Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away  Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away 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 whew whew Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away  Oh Mabellene why can’t you be true  Oh Mabellene why can’t you be true  You don’t start right doing the things you used to do