When I think backOn all the crap I learned in high schoolIt's a wonderI can think at allAnd though my lack of educationHasn't hurt me noneI can read the writing on the wallKodachromeYou give us those nice bright colorsYou give us the greens of summersMakes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!I got a Nikon cameraI love to take a photographSo Mama, don't take my Kodachrome awayIf you took all the girls I knewWhen I was singleAnd brought them all together for one nightI know they'd never match my sweet imaginationAnd everything looks worse in black and whiteKodachrome

You give us those nice bright colorsYou give us the greens of summersMakes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!I got a Nikon cameraI love to take a photographSo Mama, don't take my Kodachrome awayMama, don't take my Kodachrome awayMama, don't take my Kodachrome awayMama, don't take my Kodachrome awayMama, don't take my KodachromeMama, don't take my KodachromeMama, don't take my Kodachrome awayMama, don't take my KodachromeLeave your boy so far from homeMama, don't take my Kodachrome awayMama, don't take my KodachromeWoo-woo!Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away