Lyr Req: School Days/When We Were a Couple of Kids

Subject: School Days, School Days...'
From: Kersti's Mom
Date: 29 May 99 - 08:49 PM

Hi! My child needs the lyrics to "readin. 'n writin' 'n rithmetic, taught to the tune of a hockory stick" I used to sing it as a kid - can't remember the rest!!!!

THANKS

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: John Hindsill
Date: 29 May 99 - 08:57 PM

As I remember it--

School days, school days
Dear old golden rules days
Readin' and Writin' and 'Rithmatic
Taught to the tune of the hick'ry stick.
You were the gal in Calico
I was your bashful, barefoot beau.
I wrote on you slate 'I love you so'
When we were a couple of kids.

Subject: Lyr Add: SCHOOL DAYS (Cobb/Edwards, 1906)
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 29 May 99 - 09:11 PM

Though most of us just learned the Chorus, here are the verses as well. From the piece of sheet music dated 1941...
~Mary
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SCHOOL DAYS
(When We Were A Couple Of Kids)
Lyrics by Will D. Cobb Music by Gus Edwards
original copyright 1906

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.

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.

'Member the hill, Nellie Darling,
And the oak tree that grew on its 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.
(CHORUS)

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: Dale Rose
Date: 29 May 99 - 09:22 PM

Go to the Levy Sheet Music Site, enter School Days, it will call up the appropriate sheet music. Nine songs will be listed, you want the one by Cobb and Yellen, 1907.

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 May 99 - 09:26 PM

How did you tpe that thing so fast, Mary? I was just about to type it, and your post appeared. Click here for the sheet music from The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music, which shows the copyright date as 1907.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: Dale Rose
Date: 29 May 99 - 09:26 PM

Of course, I meant Cobb and Edwards! It's just that Cobb and Yellen collaborated on so many songs, that I just automatically typed that without thinking.

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 May 99 - 09:27 PM

Gee, it's a real horse race on this one....

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: Dale Rose
Date: 29 May 99 - 09:28 PM

Joe, you are getting ssssllllloooooowwwww! Might even lose your title!

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: Dale Rose
Date: 29 May 99 - 09:29 PM

Too funny! At least we are all on the job!

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 May 99 - 09:32 PM

Well, now that I have the rest of you so well-trained, I can just sit back and lurk....

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 29 May 99 - 09:50 PM

Joe, Just call me "Quick Type Mary"! I saw the post and flew to get my piece of sheet music...carefully slipped it out of the protective plastic envelope and started typing! I said to myself "I've got this one!" LOL

Now I am going to go to that link you included (Thanks for including that!)...it sounds as though you've given the homepage, which is great! I was curious about the site after seeing the music for Let Me Call You Sweetheart from another thread a few days back...

Mary

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 29 May 99 - 09:52 PM

I think I will share that this song has very special meaning to me...it was the last thing my Grandfather and I talked about, with him saying the words of the song, days before he died...To think he was about 7 or 8 when the song came out! WOW!

-Mary

Subject: RE: School Days, School Days...'
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 30 May 99 - 05:09 AM

I did a little more sleuthing...here's a site with a midi (8 measure/bar intro), lyrics and chords...

School Days http://www.bright.net/~mrbanjo/schooldays.htm

Lots of goodies at this site--to get to the homepage on the address above, drop the /schooldays.htm Mr. Banjo Home Page Have fun.

Mary