Lyrics The Statler Brothers

The Statler Brothers

Movies

There's lots of things in this old world

Fancy cars and pretty girls

And somethin' I like more than sunny skies

The grandest thing I've ever seen

Are pictures on a movie screen

Wolfman, you're a fright, alright

But sure a sight for sore eyes

It's a world of kings and queens

Up there on that movie screen

It's a picnic crossin' River Kwai

The movies are great medicine

Thank you, Thomas Edison

For givin' us the best years of our lives

Citizen Kane, Caine Mutiny, Mutiny on the Bounty

The Bounty Hunters, the Hunters and the Sting

Thunder Road and Road to Rio, Rio Grande and Grand Hotel

Tell them Willie Boy was here with Bride of Frankenstein and Shane

I love anything that moves

Dancin' feet to horses' hooves

Payton Place to Dorothy's trip to Oz

Tom Mix to David Hedison

Thank you, Thomas Edison

For giving us the best years of our lives

I love Captain Blood and Elmer Fudd and Charlie Chan

Ben, Ben Hur, The Way We Were, True Grit and Music Man

Thunderball and Walking Tall and Jaws and Jesse James

Doctor No and Vertigo and Singin' in the Rain, Singin' in the Rain

Blood and Sand and Santa Fe

Dunaway and Getaway

Mexicali Rose and Rose Marie

Blackboard Jungle, Jungle Jim

Jim Thorpe All American

An American In Paris

Paris Blues, Blue Hawaii

I'm Teacher's Pet on Ship of Fools

The movies were my special school

I'm the graduate of Twelve O'Clock High

The movies are great medicine

I thank you, Tommy Edison

For givin' us the best years of our lives

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

The movies are the craziest

I'll be a movie nut until I die

The movies are great medicine

Thank you, Thomas Edison

For givin' us the best years of our lives

Roy Rogers

You gave us the best years of our lives