School daze

By admin

The kids in Palm Springs went back to school yesterday. In honor of this momentous occasion, here's a quaint old song from 1907:

School Days, School Days

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School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days
Read-in' and 'rit-in' and 'rith-me-tic
Taught to the tune of a hick-ry stick
You were my queen in calico
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate
"I love you so"
When we were a couple of kids

Nothing to do, Nellie darling
Nothing to do, you say?
Let's take a trip on memory's ship
Back to the bygone days
Sail to the old village schoolhouse
Anchor outside the school door
Look in and see
There's you and there's me
A couple of kids once more

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'Member the hill
Nellie darling
And the oak tree
That grew on its brow?
They've built forty storeys
Upon that old hill
And the oak's an old chestnut now
'Member the meadows
So green, dear
So fragrant with clover and maize?
Into new city lots
And preferred business plots
They've cut them up
Since those days

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--Music by Gus Edwards (1879–1945), lyrics by Will D. Cobb (1876–1930)