April 17, 2003
And Now For Something Completely Different
As I have grown tired of singing Dad's "Rubber Dolly" song to Gage, I was going to switch to Gram's "Little Red Schoolhouse" ditty but found I am missing some lyrics. Any help would be appreciated. I'll start you off:
In the Little Red Schoolhouse, with my book and my slate,
In the Little Red Schoolhouse, I was always late.
Ten O'clock spelling lesson just begun,
Johnny threw an ink well just for fun.
Hit the teacher's eye with an awful splat,
she turned around and said "Who did that?!"
....
That's all I can remember.
I tried Kazaa, but they were no help.
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Jeff, take a look at the following link, I found the song after a little searching this morning! I think time has dimmed all of our memories a bit as the song is not exactly as I remember Gram singing it, and much longer than any of us probably knew. The recording is pretty scratchy and hard to hear, I used RealOne Player. Couldn't find the lyrics, tho! What do you think?
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/papr:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(edrs+50962r))+@field(COLLID+edison))
THAT'S IT!!!
If you listen to the last part of the song, those verses are there and just about the exact words Gram used. At first I thought she must have made up her own lyrics, but there they were! My RealPlayer sounded good so now I don't even have to sing to Gagey, I'll just play him the whole tune. Who would have figured that that oldie would be floating around out there? Well done, Lisa! It does seem to make me miss Gram even more, tho.
I can add a few lines:
Little Percy Perkins in the very first row
Raises his hand and says,
"Teacher, teacher I know!"
Oh, how that brings back memories!
Somewhere in one of Mom's piano books I have Papa's handwritten words to "The Prisoner's Song." That was one Papa and Grandma sang on long car rides.
Another song he sang to me:
KKKKKKKatie, beautiful Katie
I'll be waiting at the kkkkkkitchen door.
And when the moon shines
Over the mountains
You'll be my KKKKKKatie evermore.
Not being in the church choir anymore, I've probably lost my touch, but we could try a little songfest around the Easter egg dyeing table tomorrow!