I said, grandpa what?s this picture here   It?s all black and white, it ain?t real clear   Is that you there? He said yeah, I was 11      Times were tough back in '35   That?s me and uncle Joe just tryin? to survive   A cotton farm in a great depression      If it looks like we were scared to death   Like a couple of kids just tryin? to save each other   You should've seen it in color      Oh, and this one here was taken over seas   In the middle of hell in 1943   In the winter time you can almost see my breath      That was my tail gunner ole Johnny Magee   He was a high school teacher from New Orleans   And he had my back right through the day we left      If it looks like we were scared to death   Like a couple of kids just tryin? to save each other   You should've seen it in color      A picture's worth a thousand words   But you can?t see what those shades of gray keep covered   You should've seen it in color      This one is my favorite one   This is me and grandma in the summer sun   All dressed up, the day we said our vows      You can't tell it here but it was hot that June   And that rose was red and her eyes were blue   And just look at that smile, I was so proud   That?s the story of my life right there in black and white      And if it looks like we were scared to death   Like a couple of kids just tryin? to save each other   You should've seen it in color      A pictures worth a thousand words   But you cant see what those shades of gray keep covered   You should have seen it in color   You should have seen it in color      Yeah, a pictures worth a thousand words   But you cant see what those shades of gray keep covered   You should have seen it in color