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If ever you think about the happiest days of your life
Cast back your mind for a while And remember the time when you were a child. Don't think of things that make you sad, Just remember all the good times that you had. Do you remember only happy days, Full of flaming Junes and summer holidays? Or do you remember those stormy Novembers When we walked in the wind and the rain? Schooldays were such happy days Now they seem so far away, I remember and I'll always treasure. Schooldays were the happiest days of your life But we never appreciate the good times we have Until it's too late. I miss all the acquaintances we made And I'd go back if I could only find a way, Schooldays were the happiest days Though at the time they filled me with dismay. We only remember what we choose to remember. When I was a schoolboy I loathed regulations and rules I hated my textbooks and my school uniform, 'Cos it made me conform, And teachers were always disobeyed, But I'd go back if I could only find a way. Schooldays were the happiest days, Now they seem so far away. I remember and I'll always treasure Schooldays were the happiest days of your life But we never appreciate the good times we have Until it's too late. Now I wish I hadn't strayed, And I'd go back if I could only find a way. Schooldays. |
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In a deep dark jungle long time ago
Lived a lonesome caveman He was a solitary soul And he spent his playtime Chewing meat from bones. He didn't know how to talk much He only knew how to groan Then he lifted up his hands and reached to the sky Let out a yell and no one replied. Frustration and torment tore him inside Then he fell to the ground and he cried and he cried. But then education saved the day. He learned to speak and communicate Education saved the day. He thanked God for the friends he made. 'Cos everybody needs an education Everybody needs an education. Black skin, red skin, yellow or white, Everybody needs to read and write Everybody needs an education. Thank the day when that primitive man Learned to talk with his brothers And live off the land. He left his cave and he moved far away And he lived with his friends in a house that they'd made He learned to think and to work with his brain And he astounded his friends with all the knowledge he gained He wrote it down on a rock that he found And he showed all his friends and they passed it around And then education came that day. The day it came was a sacred day. Education came that day He thanked God for the friends he'd made. Well man built a boat and he learned how to sail And he travelled far and wide Then he looked up above saw the stars in the sky So he learned how to fly. Thanks to all the mathematicians And the inventors with their high I.Q.s And the professors in their colleges Trying to feed me knowledge That I know I'll never use. Thank you sir for the millions of words That you've handed me down and you've told me to learn But I've got words in my ears and my eyes I've got so many facts that I must memorize Because education's doing me in I want to stop but my head's in a swim Education drives me insane I can't recall all the facts on my brain. Education came that day The day it came was a sacred day Education saved the day He thanked God for all the friends he made. Teacher, teach me how to read and write, You can teach me about biology, But you can't tell me what I am living for 'Cos that's still a mystery. Teacher, teach me about nuclear physics And teach me about the structure of man, But all your endless calculations Can't tell me why I am. No you can't tell me why I am, No you can't tell me why I am. Everybody needs education, Open Universities, education. Every race every creed, education. And every little half-breed, education. Every nationality, education. All the little people need education. Eskimos and pygmies need And even aborigines, education. Well physics and geography, education. Philosophy and history, education. Science and biology, education, Geometry and poetry, education. Well, education, education, education, education (Repeat 'education' till end) |
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How well I remember my very first love affair
Those juvenile fantasies and innocent dreams we shared But we're too blind to realize that we are totally unprepared For the first time we fall in love We think it's forever, the first time we fall in love We always treasure the first time we fall in love Those other romances come and go But we cherish the memory of The first time we fall in love First love can be such a strain It can rule your head, it can bring you pain And when it ends it seems such a shame The first time we fall in love Can make you sad, it can keep you awake It can drive you mad People say you're too young and it's only a fad The first time we fall in love The first time we fall in love The first time I fell out of love, it knocked me through the floor My world came crashing down, it shook me to the core I was unprepared 'cos I was only a kid And I was much too young and I wasn't equipped For the emotional pressures and stresses of it But oh, I'll never forget The way that she looked the first time we met Time goes by but we never forget The first time we fall in love Love can be exciting, it can be a bloody bore Love can be a pleasure or nothing but a chore Love can be like a dull routine It can run you around till you're out of steam It can treat you well, it can treat you mean Love can mess you around I can pick you up, it can bring you down But they'll never know The feelings we show The first time we fall in love The first time we fall in love |
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Headmaster, this is my confession.
This time you won't be overjoyed, I have destroyed what little faith you had in me, I've been such a naughty boy. Headmaster I am at your mercy, I've been such a little fool. I've dishonored one who trusted me, I have broken all the rules. I've been with those naughty little girls again, Now those naughty little girls are going to put me to shame. I wish that I'd been born with a little more sense, This time it's a serious offense. I feel like an Innocent victim, I feel that I just can't win. Headmaster please give me one chance, Please help me to act like a man. I've let down the school, I've broken all the rules, I've let down the side, I've committed a crime. Headmaster, this is my confession, I've been such a little fool. I've dishonored one who trusted me, I have broken all the rules. I've been such a little fool. Don't tell all my friends I bent over, Don't tell them you made me cry. Don't tell them I've been sacrificed, Don't tell all my friends or I'll die. Headmaster don't beat me I beg you, I know that I've let you down. Headmaster please spare me I beg you, Don't make me take my trousers down. |
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Boys like you were born to waste,
You never listen to a word I say And if you think you're here to mess around, You're making a big mistake, 'Cos you're gonna find out the hard way, You gonna find out the hard way. No matter what I do or say, You're much too dumb to educate. One day life's going to turn around and slap you in the face, Then you're gonna find out the hard way. You'll take the hard way, Gonna take the hard way. Well, you'll do it your way and I'll do it my way, And we'll see who's the one to survive. You'll find that with no foundation Or qualifications There's no way that you can get by, No, there's no way you can get by. Why don't you take the easy way? Why don't you co-operate? Don't just sit there and vegetate. Do you want to end up illiterate? You think that life's a vacation And you've no inclination To dust away the cobwebs of your mind. Now it's time for confrontation And I'm tired of being patient, So I've got to be cruel to be kind. You've got to be cruel to be kind. I'm wasting my vocation teaching you to write neat When you're only fit to sweep the streets. Your intellect is such That it requires a killer's touch. So I'm going to play it your way, We'll take the hard way. Going to take the hard way, You can take the hard way. Gonna take the hard way, Gonna take the hard way. |
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As I walked to the last assembly,
There were tears in the back of my eyes, And I saw all my friends all around me, They were there to wish me goodbye. As I stood in a line with my comrades, I felt such a feeling of pride, And I forgot all the grief and the hatred inside, As we sang for the very last time. Gather round, gather round, Everybody gather round. Come and join our last assembly, Let us smile, wipe away all the frowns. Gather round, gather round, Everybody gather round. As we stood at the last assembly, All my friends came to wish me goodbye. Gather round, gather round, Gather round, gather round, Everybody gather round. As I stand at the last assembly, I just can't keep the tears from my eyes. |
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