School

<br>Education!<br><br>Ronnie, bobby, ricky, and mike, and ralph!<br><br>S c h o o l, you got to go to school and beat that bell.<br><br>E-mail, what goes here? ________and ring, ding, dong.<br><br>We e-mail, what goes here? __________ rap about this song.<br><br>Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, the weekends here!<br><br><br><br><br><br>Well listen.<br><br>When I was very young I used to sit around the house watching oil can harry battle mighty mouse<br><br>Until my mother said, &quot;son, thats not the way to be. youve got to go to school and learn your abcs.&quot;<br><br>I said, &quot;is that it, mom? &quot;<br><br>She said, &quot;thats not even half. youve got to go to school, you got to learn some math.<br><br>You got to learn you to count- 1, 2, 3- and then get freshed up on the history.&quot;<br><br>My first day of school Ill never forget. my teacher said, &quot;recite the alphabet.&quot;<br><br>I said, &quot;a e m e l r,&quot; and, as you can see, I didnt get very far.<br><br>The teacher said, &quot;son, theres nothing to it. before the days over, youll learn how to do it.<br><br>And not only that, youll learn how to read, and thats one thing in life youll always need.&quot;<br><br>Well, schools not all work. theres fun things to do like gym, lunch, and recess, too.<br><br>Kindergarten was easy. it was mostly play. what I was worried about was elementary.<br><br><br><br><br><br>S c h o o l, you got to go to school and beat that bell.<br><br>_______________ and ring, ding, dong.<br><br>We ______________ rap about this song. (2)<br><br><br><br><br><br>Ha! now something got wrong. I took another turn.<br><br>I didnt want to study, didnt even want to learn.<br><br>Didnt want to go to class. I was always late because school became something that I started to hate.<br><br>Started hanging with my boys; didnt mean no harm. we was going around the school pulling fire alarms.<br><br>I was a chilly homeboy, yes, I was down because I came to school just to mess around.<br><br>I started hanging in the halls, writing on the walls, until I got started playing basketball.<br><br>But I didnt have a job so I couldnt get paid and I couldnt play ball because of my grades.<br><br>But I still used to practice each and every day in case the coach decided to let me play.<br><br>But it didnt work out the way I planned, so I ran to a man who said he can understand the troubles I was going through.<br><br>He said, &quot;son its all about going to school.&quot;<br><br>So I e-mail, what goes here? ________ and now Im moving up to the big leagues: high school.<br><br><br><br><br><br>S c h o o l, you got to go to school and beat that bell.<br><br>__________________ and ring, ding, dong.<br><br>We got a ________________ about this song. (2)<br><br><br><br><br><br>Ronnie, bobby, ricky, and mike, and ralph!<br><br>Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, the weekends here!<br><br><br><br><br><br>E-mail, what goes here? ____________<br><br>Im feeling cool cause I was going on to something they call &quot;high school.&quot;<br><br>And I feel important, cause things arent the same, wondering why nobody knows my name.<br><br>That became something that I started to miss, and now that Im here it feels like a big dis.<br><br>But, anyway, I had to leave. I had something to achieve.<br><br>It was singing- yeah- thats what I wanted to do, so I got a tutor, because Im no fool.<br><br>Dropping out of school is quite absurd, and its something new edition just spread the word.<br><br>Stay in school!<br><br><br><br><br><br>S c h o o l, you got to go to school and beat that bell.......<br><br>Ronnie, bobby, ricky, and mike, and ralph.....<br><br>(repeat and fade....)