You will not be able to stay home, brother. <br />You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. <br />You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, <br />Skip out for beer during commercials, <br />Because the revolution will not be televised. <br />The revolution will not be televised. <br />The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox <br />In 4 parts without commercial interruptions. <br />The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon <br />blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John <br />Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat <br />hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary. <br />The revolution will not be televised. <br />The revolution will not be brought to you by the <br />Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie <br />Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia. <br />The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal. <br />The revolution will not get rid of the nubs. <br />The revolution will not make you look five pounds <br />thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother. <br /><br />There will be no pictures of you and Willie May <br />pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run, <br />or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance. <br />NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 <br />or report from 29 districts. <br />The revolution will not be televised. <br /><br />There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down <br />brothers in the instant replay. <br />There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down <br />brothers in the instant replay. <br />There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being <br />run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process. <br />There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy <br />Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and <br />Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving <br />For just the proper occasion. <br /><br />Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville <br />Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and <br />women will not care if Dick finally gets down with <br />Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people <br />will be in the street looking for a brighter day. <br />The revolution will not be televised. <br /><br />There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock <br />news and no pictures of hairy armed women <br />liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose. <br />The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb, <br />Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom <br />Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth. <br />The revolution will not be televised. <br /><br />The revolution will not be right back after a message <br />about a white tornado, white lightning or white people. <br />You will not have to worry about a dove in your <br />bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl. <br />The revolution will not go better with Coke. <br />The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. <br />The revolution will put you in the driver's seat. <br /><br />The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, <br />will not be televised, will not be televised. <br />The revolution will be no re-run brothers; <br />The revolution will be live. <br /><br />If Not Televised, Can It Be Tweeted? <br />http://wfae.org/post/if-not-televised-could-revolution-be-tweeted
