I'm looking for reasonably authentic lyrics for this song for inclusion in the Rise Again songbook. Up above. Mark & Jim posted the lyrics Bob Reid uses. For comparison, here is the Digital Tradition version of this song. Anybody have anything different?

HI FI, STEREO, COLOR TV
(John Cohen, Jay Ungar)

There was a town in this country
And none of the children there could read, with a

cho: Hi fi, stereo, color TV
Stereo, Color TV

For the printed page they had no use
And they treated newspapers with abuse, with their

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The School Board was surprised indeed
To find out none of the kids could read, 'cause of

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To make sure all of the kids would pass
They replaced the teacher in every class, with a

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The children all soon learned to read,
And then they found they had no nead, for a

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So a plan was made by these clever creatures
To record the lessons of their teachers, on a

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With a video receiver in every chair,
The children were free to roam anywhere, from the

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Now up on the hills they roam like elves
While the TV sets just watch themselves, on the

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Note: To the "Hi fie, diddle I diddle I fie" version of Devil and
the Farmer's wife.
@child @parody @school
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