When I think back on all the [bad word] 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
 [bad word] 
Kodachrome give us those nice bright colors
give us the greens of summers
makes you think all the world's a sunny day
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take the photographs
so momma don't take my kodachrome away

VERSE 2
If you took all the girls I knew when I was single
and brought em all together for one night
I know they never match my sweet imagination
and everything looks worse in black and white
 [bad word] 
Kodachrome give us those nice bright colors
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 the photographs
so momma 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
Leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Maybellene, why can't you be [bad word] 
Oh maybellene, why can't you be [bad word] 
You've started back doing the things you used to do.

As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw maybellene in a coup de ville.
cadillac a-rollin' on the open road,
Nothin' will [bad word] my v8 ford.
The cadillac doin' 'bout ninety-five,
She's bumper to bumber rollin' side by side.

Maybellene, why can't you be [bad word] 
Oh maybellene, why can't you be [bad word] 
You've started back doing the things you used to do.

Pink in the mirror on top of the hill,
It's just like swallowin' up a medicine pill.
First thing I saw that cadillac grille
Doin' a hundred and ten gallopin' over that hill.
Offhill curve, a downhill strecth,
Me and that cadillac neck by neck.

Maybellene, why can't you be [bad word] 
Oh maybellene, why can't you be [bad word] 
You've started back doing the things you used to do.

The cadillac pulled up ahead of the ford,
The ford got hot and wouldn't do no more.
It then got clody and it started to rain,
I tooted my horn for a passin' lead
The rain water blowin' all under my hood,
I knew that was doin' my motor good.

Maybellene, why can't you be [bad word] 
Oh maybellene, why can't you be [bad word] 
You've started back doing the things you used to do.

The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound.
The cadillac a-sittin' like a ton of lead
hundred and ten a half a mile ahead.
The cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught maybellene at the top of the hill.

Maybellene, why can't you be [bad word] 
Oh maybellene, why can't you be [bad word] 
You've started back doing the things you used to do.