The Day The Talkies Came - Peter Straker

You could laugh till you cried

You could lose yourself a while

In the silent screen

You’d forget where you’d been

What you’d seen

You were part of the silver screen

All the world just passed you by

You just sat there starry-eyed

As the lady of the keys

Added atmosphere with ease by her expertise

And the hero got his man

While the Keystone cops were still trying to find the gang

All the world just passed you by

You just sat there starry-eyed

Ba-ba-da-ba-dum

Ba-ba-da-ba-dum

And then the day came when those

Talking pictures came to town

This innovation had people talking

For miles around

They had forgotten the thrills they had seen

When men like Chaplin had come to the screen

Gone was the silence that once was a dream

The day the talkies came to town

The day the talkies came to town

The day the talkies came to town

The day the talkies came to town!

You could laugh till you cried

You could lose yourself a while in the silent screen

You’d forget where you’d been, what you’d seen:

You were part of the silver screen

All the world just passed you by

You just sat there starry-eyed

Ba-ba-da-ba-dum

Ba-ba-da-ba-dum

Ba-ba-da-ba-dum

Then came the day when those

Talking pictures came to town

This innovation had people talking

For miles around

They had forgotten the thrills they had seen

When men like Chaplin had come to the screen

Gone was the silence that once was a dream

The day the talkies came to town

The day the talkies came to town

The day the talkies came to town