The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [Early Version]
Gil Scott-Heron

You will not be able to stay home, brother
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and drop out
You will not be able to lose yourself on snag and skip
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 4 parts without commercial interruption
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 be brought to you by the Schaefer award theater and
Will not star Natalie wood 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 mays
Pushing that cart down the block on the dead run
Or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance
Nbc will not predict the winner at 8:32or the count from 29 districts

The revolution will not be televised

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
Brothers in the instant replay
There will be no pictures of young being
Run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process
There will be no slow motion or still life of
Roy Wilkens strolling through watts in a red, black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the right occasion
Green acres, the Beverly hillbillies, and
Hooterville junction will no longer be so damned relevant
Andwomen will not care if dick finally gets 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, 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 germ on your bedroom,
A tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that 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

The revolution will be no re-run brothers
The revolution will be live


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