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Education! |
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Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike, and Ralph! |
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S C H O O L, you got to go to school and beat that bell. |
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E-mail, what goes here?________and ring, ding, dong. |
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We E-mail, what goes here?__________ rap about this song. |
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, the weekend's here! |
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Well listen. |
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When I was very young I used to sit around the house watching Oil Can Harry battle Mighty Mouse |
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Until my mother said, "Son, that's not the way to be. You've got to go to school and learn your ABCs." |
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I said, "Is that it, mom?" |
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She said, "That's not even half. You've got to go to school, you got to learn some math. |
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You got to learn you to count- 1, 2, 3- and then get freshed up on the history." |
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My first day of school I'll never forget. My teacher said, "Recite the alphabet." |
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I said, "A E M E L R," and, as you can see, I didn't get very far. |
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The teacher said, "Son, there's nothing to it. Before the day's over, you'll learn how to do it. |
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And not only that, you'll learn how to read, and that's one thing in life you'll always need." |
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Well, school's not all work. There's fun things to do like gym, lunch, and recess, too. |
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Kindergarten was easy. It was mostly play. What I was worried about was elementary. |
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S C H O O L, you got to go to school and beat that bell. |
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_______________ and ring, ding, dong. |
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We ______________ rap about this song. (2) |
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Ha! Now something got wrong. I took another turn. |
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I didn't want to study, didn't even want to learn. |
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Didn't want to go to class. I was always late because school became something that I started to hate. |
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Started hanging with my boys; didn't mean no harm. We was going around the school pulling fire alarms. |
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I was a chilly homeboy, yes, I was down because I came to school just to mess around. |
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I started hanging in the halls, writing on the walls, until I got started playing basketball. |
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But I didn't have a job so I couldn't get paid and I couldn't play ball because of my grades. |
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But I still used to practice each and every day in case the coach decided to let me play. |
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But it didn't work out the way I planned, so I ran to a man who said he can understand the troubles I was going through. |
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He said, "Son it's all about going to school." |
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So I E-mail, what goes here?________ and now I'm moving up to the big leagues: high school. |
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S C H O O L, you got to go to school and beat that bell. |
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__________________ and ring, ding, dong. |
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We got a ________________ about this song. (2) |
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Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike, and Ralph! |
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, the weekend's here! |
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E-mail, what goes here?____________ |
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I'm feeling cool 'cause I was going on to something they call "high school." |
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And I feel important, 'cause things aren't the same, wondering why nobody knows my name. |
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That became something that I started to miss, and now that I'm here it feels like a big dis. |
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But, anyway, I had to leave. I had something to achieve. |
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It was singing- yeah- that's what I wanted to do, so I got a tutor, because I'm no fool. |
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Dropping out of school is quite absurd, and it's something New Edition just spread the word. |
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Stay in school! |
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S C H O O L, you got to go to school and beat that bell....... |
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Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike, and Ralph..... |
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(Repeat and fade....) |
