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It doesn’t matter where you are in the big brown land,
What circles you mix in or who understands
There’s always one subject that gets them involved
More than sports or politics or even rock’n’roll
It’s does anyone remember the mysterious cities of gold?

And the crowd goes ‘oooh’ I remember that show, wow man,
It was so long ago, I remember a guy with sandals and a golden bird
And they only played it once, yeah it’s absurd
And details are sketchy, like our brains
But it isn’t long till everyones pulling out their faves

Cos we’re
GENERATION ABC
GLUED TO THE TELLY IN THE LATE EIGHTIES
SPINNING OUT TO THE TUNNEL IN DR WHO
KIDDY KAREOKE TO PETER COMBE

Can’t do that on television had alanis morrisiette
I wouldn’t mind if she was slimed for her second album effort
And monkey magic starring dylan lewis as a lad
I thought the banana splits show was the beatles making a comeback
Roger ramjet used to pop a few too many pills
Wurzel gummage was off his head it used to make me ill
And sooty was so cute but one episode got banned
It contained a shower scene and sooty was just a hand

GENERATION ABC
QUALITY PROGRAMMING KEPT ME OFF THE STREETS
DEGRASSI JUNIOR HIGH AND ZIT REMEDY
BTN USED TO MAKE ME SCREAM

Mr quiggle was taken off the air after it left a kid half dead
He tried to turn his TV upside down and it landed on his head
Inspector gadget was my hero with his gogo gadget deal
But now I question why he didn’t drive a go go mobile
If power rangers were oasis then voltron was the beatles
Five bandmates one robot it had exactly the same principals
Then there was that line guy who’s quite hard to explain
He was drawn in white on a green background and he used to come on and say:
Mmmmmmbaaah! Hase esu me be su da? Anyway,
Sesame street was the ramsay street for early childhood
Supergorver and snuffulupagus were people in your neighbourhood
So bert and ernie shared a room I was in no way appalled
I was more freaked out by cookie monsters wobbly eyeballs.
(word ‘wobbly’ is ommitted on recording)
Eden Gaha was the quizmaster on a little show called Vidiot
It made the pairs on double dare look like a pack of idiots
The afternoon show made afternoons glow weekdays at four thirty
Hosted by james valentine he made it cool to be nerdy

GENERATION ABC
CAN”T GO TO THE TOILET IT’S COMMERCIAL FREE
PENFOLD OFF DANGERMOUSE LOOKS LIKE OUR PM
GOODIE GOODIE YUM YUM IT NEVER ENDS

Super ted, tea bag, noddy, trapdoor, red and blue,
My favourite martian, secret valley, wombels too
Paddington bear, blinky bill, hunter, captain pugwash
Henry’s cat, bananaman I hope there’s nothing I’ve forgotten.