i woke up last night shaking from a dream for in that dream i died my wife rolled over and told me that my life would be immortalized not in some major motion picture or great american novel you see no they re gonna make a tv movie out of me well now it s one two three you take the money yeah it s as easy as a b c yeah they re gonna make a tv movie out of me well they can change my name or they can leave it they can change my story too or they can make me black or chinese and do things that i never did do they re gonna give my life a whole new ending and put me in prime time first run and when it s over what i did there will be what i done i don t want my name in a history book nobody s ever gonna see no they re gonna make a tv movie out of me well now it s one two three you take the money yeah it s as easy as a b c yeah they re gonna make a tv movie out of me well i m a shoe in for a sponsor goodyear blimp and radial wheels somebody had a meeting somewhere somehow somebody made a deal well i was one of them kinds of stories that everybody liked to see yeah they re gonna make a tv movie out of me  now i don t want no inscription on my gravestone no long soliloquy no they re gonna make a tv movie out of me well now it s one two three you take the money yeah it s as easy as a b c yeah they re gonna make a tv movie out of me