The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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 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 Spiro Agnew
 To eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary
 The revolution will not be televised
 The revolution will not be brought to you by the
 Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star
 Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia
 The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal
 The revolution will not get rid of the nubs
 The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner
 Because the revolution will not be televised, brother
 There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
 Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run
 Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance
 NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
 Or report from 29 districts
 The revolution will not be televised
 There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
 Brothers on the instant replay
 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 new process
 There will be no slow motion or still lifes of Roy Wilkens
 Strolling through Watts in a red, black and green
 Liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
 For just the proper occasion
 Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction
 Will no longer be so damned relevant
 And women will not care if Dick finally got down with Jane
 On "Search for Tomorrow" because black people
 Will be in the street looking for a brighter day
 The revolution will not be televised
 There will be no highlights on the eleven 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, Englebert Humperdink or the Rare Earth
 The revolution will not be televised
 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 the 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 put you in the driver's seat
 The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised
 Will not be televised, will not be televised
 The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
 The revolution will be live