"School days, school days,
Dear old golden rule days,
Reading and writing and 'rithmetic,
Taught to the tune of a hickory stick..."
At which point the authorities step in to remind you that corporal punishment is forbidden and tell you that you'll have to take that song someplace where impressionable children (and impressionable teachers) don't hear it.
So, yeah - the song is a relic of "when we were a couple of kids."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Dear old golden rule days,
Reading and writing and 'rithmetic,
Taught to the tune of a hickory stick..."
At which point the authorities step in to remind you that corporal punishment is forbidden and tell you that you'll have to take that song someplace where impressionable children (and impressionable teachers) don't hear it.
So, yeah - the song is a relic of "when we were a couple of kids."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012