Lyr Add: What Did You Learn in School Today?

Subject: Lyr Add: WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN SCHOOL TODAY?^^^
From: chico
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 12:16 AM

    C                      F      C   (Am)         G       C  (G7)
  What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine
     F            C          F            C
  I learned that Washington never told a lie
     F            C        G7     C
  I learned that soldiers seldom die
     F            C     F      C
  I learned that everybody's free
    F               C      G       C
  That's what the teacher said to me
   G7  C                         F       C
  And that's what I learned in school today
  (Am)             G7         C    (G7)
  That's what I learned in school
  
  What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine
  I learned that policemen are my friends
  I learned that justice never ends
  I learned that murderers die for their crimes
  Even if we make a mistake sometimes
  And that's what I learned in school today
  That's what I learned in school
  
  What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine
  I learned that war is not so bad
  I learned about the great ones we have had
  We fought in Germany and in France 
  And someday I might get my chance
  And that's what I learned in school today
  That's what I learned in school
  
  What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine
  I learned that our government must be strong
  It's always right and never wrong
  Our leaders are the finest men
  So we elect them again and again
  And that's what I learned in school today
  That's what I learned in school
   

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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (K
From: chico
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 12:16 AM

What I would have done to be able to play this and know it when I was in grade school! (80's)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (KT)
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 12:22 AM

The song was written by Tom Paxton, btw. Pete Seeger did a great rendition of it on his "Carnegie Hall" album.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (K
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 02:39 AM

What does (KT) in the subject header mean? (and why can't I put in the T)?)
Kingston Trio? Did they record it? I know the Chad Mitchell Trio did, and
I don't remember ever hearing a version by the Kingston Trio.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (K
From: chico
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 02:52 AM

It's a mistake. It was not kingston, but Chad Mitchell. . . oopsie

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (K
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 03:36 AM

The first line of each verse ("What did you...") is repeated--at least, that's the way Tom Paxton did it.   I remember learning this song in 1967. I carried a copy of the lyrics around with me in my wallet for most of my sophomore year in high school.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (KT)
From: fiddler
Date: 01 Jun 05 - 03:45 AM

I sung (sang) it all over in the 60's I always though (and still do) it was a bit of brilliant irony, satire, or just plain cynical insight in to our life and political systems!

Andy

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (K
From: GUEST,KT
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 03:11 AM

Whew!! I thought the question was directed at me and my answer was not a heck of a lot!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (KT)
From: Flash Company
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 06:13 AM

Remember once entering a photograph in a competition run by the local Woodford Air Display. It was of a bunnnnnnnnnch of kids around 8 years old swarming all over a Field-gun. Caption;- What did you learn in School today?
Didn't win anything, can't think why!

FC

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (K
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 11:11 AM

Pete Seeger, too, sang the first line twice. And I don't know how one would have to mangle the tune to only sing it once.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (K
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 02 Jun 05 - 08:43 PM

It's pretty clear to me that the KT (or CM or whoever) must have sung this to a different tune than Pete Seeger did. No way can I make those chords fit Pete's tune, as I remember it. Using these chords, I can pretty much reconstruct a usable tune, a childlike tune, for it, but I like the one I learned from Pete better.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: What did you learn in school today (KT)
From: Peace
Date: 03 Jun 05 - 01:56 AM

[C]What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of [G] mine
[C]What did you learn in school today, dear little [G] boy of [C]mine

I [F]learned that policemen [C]are my friends

I [F]learned that justice [C]never ends

I [F]learned that murderers [C]die for their crimes

[F]Even if we make a [C] mistake sometimes

And that's what I learned in school today

That's what I [G]learned in school


Relying on memory from 38 years ago. BM

Subject: what did you learn in school today
From: The Sandman
Date: 01 Jan 12 - 04:34 PM

great song, hope you enjoyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VucczIg98Gw&feature=related

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Elmore
Date: 01 Jan 12 - 09:21 PM

Attn: Mr. Gargoyle. Are you all right? What the Hell are you talking about? How long have you been into folk music? 15 Minutes? I know Tom Paxton, and you're no Tom Paxton.

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 12 - 09:23 PM

Yes, it is. Tom Paxton wrote it.

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 12 - 09:24 PM

He's just trolling, Elmore. Ignore him and he'll go away.

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 02 Jan 12 - 01:55 AM

You may have heard of the little kid who goes to school on his first day.
When he gets home ,his mother says:

" Well,what did learn at school today "

The kid : " Not enough... I've got to go back tomorrow"

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: GUEST,Iona
Date: 02 Jan 12 - 02:09 AM

As a passing note, Pete Seeger sang a song by the same name.

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Jan 12 - 05:36 AM

It was Paxton's song Seeger sang.

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Elmore
Date: 02 Jan 12 - 06:36 AM

Attn: Rapparee. Well,it's 9 hours later, I took my medication. I feel much better. Also I see that the entry that set me off has. vanished. Good. I know that foolishness like that is all over the web, but get cranky when people gratuitously attack performers like Seeger or Paxton whom I've enjoyed for 40 or 50 years. thanks, Elmore

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: kendall
Date: 02 Jan 12 - 08:02 AM

Two of the very best. Tom updated this to include:

..we learned Newt Gingrich has a plan
Health care for every woman and man
It will cost far less and I'll tell you why
'Cause, when you get sick you just die, die die...

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 12 - 08:47 AM

Whether you like a singer or songwriter or not, you can at least pretend to civility. Figuratively punching someone in the nose because you don't like what they write is...rude. And liable to get you hurt.

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Jan 12 - 08:57 AM

fortunately i missed fargoyles input, but if it is like most of his other posts., it reminds me of the one liner, when they circumsised you they threw away the wrong bit.99 per cent of what he says is a wind up and belongs in the rubbish bin.
kendall, thanks for supplying the new verse i shall use it

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jan 12 - 09:23 AM

And thanks to the Joe-Clones for their diligent surgery.

We could use some new verses about what we're not learning in school these days, thinking about the schools in which "evolution theory" is being replaced with "creationism" otherwise known as "intelligent design."

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Jan 12 - 02:07 PM

great song

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: GUEST,Iona
Date: 03 Jan 12 - 02:28 AM

*shakes warning finger* :D
Don't get me started on That, Charley Noble. I'm ready and willing to defend intelligent design as long as it's the God of the Bible who is behind it. :) But I'm not going to turn this into a debate, this is the wrong venue!

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jan 12 - 08:45 AM

Iona-

Sometimes we do debate here at Mudcat, even in music threads, but we seldom change strongly held opinion. No doubt your belief in the God of the Bible is correct and my belief in the Cosmic Muffin is but a figment of my sacrilegious mind.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: GUEST,Iona
Date: 03 Jan 12 - 01:51 PM

*laugh* There are many opinions, but only one truth. I'm willing to discuss it, but only if it's mutual.
By the way, I've never heard Evolution called the 'cosmic muffin'!

♣Iona

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Jan 12 - 08:13 AM

hers another verse , i just made up:
I LEARNED THE IRISH HAVE A NEW TAX,
THE HOUSEHOLD CHARGE NOW HERES THE FACTS,
YOU PAY OUT A 100 AND GET NOTHING BACK

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Subject: what did you learn in school today
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Aug 13 - 07:07 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Vt6RAyFvo

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Aug 13 - 07:11 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfJ0Q3TCGN8

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 04 Aug 13 - 04:59 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU2tH1wCAFw&feature=c4-overview&list=UUvxgnrp7Vm2xzaAV8Rf0kHg

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: GUEST,Larry the Radio Guy
Date: 04 Aug 13 - 06:21 PM

I don't think that school children learn that our leaders our the best of men.......anymore. Rather, I think they learn that our leaders aren't particularly honest and never keep their promises once they're elected.   But nobody does. And that everything's corrupt so it doesn't matter who you vote for.

A much more cynical mindset than what Tom Paxton first had in mind.

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: The Sandman
Date: 05 Aug 13 - 06:49 AM

you can think what you like , you are welcome to believe anything you like, however i disagree with you.

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 05 Aug 13 - 12:55 PM

Me too

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 Aug 13 - 02:16 PM

It is what they learn out of school- at home, from friends and on the internet. Those in the urban environment do not have the same attitude towards the country's leaders as those from the small town-rural environment.

As a child in a small town, I remember Roosevelt being considered a dangerous radical, many of us wore Landon buttons to school; and, raised in a city with a large Catholic majority, much support was voiced in "Current Affairs" discussion for the Franco regime.

Subject: RE: what did you learn in school today
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 05 Aug 13 - 02:54 PM

That's true. They learn so much 'out of school' that it really isn't as relevant what the school teaches them, is it.   In some way that Tom Paxton song can be seen as a song of 'innocence'........where they swallow certain propaganda. Now there is so much information about so many things, what basis is there for a child to know what to believe?

I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing.