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In a deep dark jungle long time ago |
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Lived a lonesome caveman |
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He was a solitary soul |
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And he spent his playtime |
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Chewing meat from bones. |
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He didn't know how to talk much |
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He only knew how to groan |
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Then he lifted up his hands and reached to the sky |
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Let out a yell and no one replied. |
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Frustration and torment tore him inside |
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Then he fell to the ground and he cried and he cried. |
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But then education saved the day. |
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He learned to speak and communicate |
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Education saved the day. |
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He thanked God for the friends he made. |
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Cause everybody needs an education |
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Everybody needs an education. |
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Black skin, red skin, yellow or white, |
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Everybody needs to read and write |
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Everybody needs an education. |
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Thank the day when that primitive man |
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Learned to talk with his brothers |
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And live off the land. |
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He left his cave and he moved far away |
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And he lived with his friends in a house that they'd made |
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He learned to think and to work with his brain |
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And he astounded his friends with all the knowledge he gained |
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He wrote it down on a rock that he found |
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And he showed all his friends and they passed it around |
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And then education came that day. |
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The day it came was a sacred day. |
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Education came that day |
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He thanked God for the friends he'd made. |
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Well man built a boat and he learned how to sail |
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And he traveled far and wide |
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Then he looked up above saw the stars in the sky |
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So he learned how to fly. |
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Thanks to all the mathematicians |
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And the inventors with their high I.Q.s |
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And the professors in their colleges |
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Trying to feed me knowledge |
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That I know I'll never use. |
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Thank you sir for the millions of words |
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That you've handed me down and you've told me |
