HIT: Will D. Cobb's SCHOOL DAYS (when we were a couple of kids)

[Kay Ellis <tcb027@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>]

I thought you all might enjoy reading this.  I didn't remember the verses at
all.

Will D. Cobb's SCHOOL DAYS
(when we were a couple of kids)

Lyric by Will D. Cobb
Music by Gus Edwards
Mills Music Publishers
c.1906, 1934

Chorus:

School days, school days, dear old golden rule days.
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic,
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, Joe,"
When we were a couple of kids.

Verse 1:

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 school house,
Anchor outside the school door,
Look in and see, there's you and there's me,
A couple of kids once more.

Verse 2:

'Member the hill, Nellie Darling
And the oak tree that grew on it's brow?
They've built forty stories 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 bus'ness plots,
They've cut them up since those days.
Kay Ellis
Library Media Specialist
Hannibal High School
kellis@hannibal.k12.mo.us

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