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Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song)
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Subject: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Paul Hudson Date: 11 Dec 01 - 05:34 PM A long shot... Growing up in the early '70's in the UK, a school song was popularly sung just before each holiday:
"No more days of school
There was another line refering to the teachers:
"We do the work
Memory suggests that it was sung to a varient of 'One man went to mow' but my memory may well be playing tricks. Anyone recognise it? Or, have anything else to add? Paul |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: weepiper Date: 11 Dec 01 - 05:38 PM Sorry don't know that one but it has reminded me of one we used to sing (early eighties Scotland) to the tune of 'This old man came rolling home' : No more tables, no more chairs, Kick the teachers down the stairs, No more English, no more French, No more sitting on the old school bench. There were several verses but I can't remember the rest. |
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Subject: ADD: School's Out (kids' chant) From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Dec 01 - 05:47 PM Well, the one I learned was: School's out, school's out! The teachers let the monkeys out. No more pencils, no more books, No more teachers' dirty looks! This message (click) adds: Kick the tables, kick the chairs, kick the teachers down the stairs! -Joe Offer, who grew up in Michigan and Wisconsin- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Snuffy Date: 11 Dec 01 - 06:46 PM Down at our school Teachers are so funny Kids do all the bloody work Teachers get the money is on 'Owdham Edge', the companion LP to 'Deep Lancashire'. I think they've been reissued on CDs WassaiL! V |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Paul Hudson Date: 11 Dec 01 - 06:50 PM Ha! Thanks Snuffy, A beginning for sure! Paul |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Penny S. Date: 11 Dec 01 - 07:01 PM Don't these things travel?
This time tomorrow, where shall I be? It was a boarding school - I was a day girl. I believed the tales to be exaggeration - now I've seen the memories on friendsreunited, I'm not so sure. (Currently off-line because the mean old head teachers complained about it!) Penny |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Penny S. Date: 11 Dec 01 - 07:04 PM Forgot to say, this was at Folkestone, a small harbour town on the extreme south east of England. and I think it may have been "black bits in the butter." |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Penny S. Date: 11 Dec 01 - 07:05 PM Help, the heads are attacking. It was, I think, "black bits in the butter". Penny |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 11 Dec 01 - 07:14 PM What was the tune, Penny? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Lanfranc Date: 11 Dec 01 - 07:15 PM In the Essex (UK) primary schools I attended, I recall that we sang the following at the start of the last day of term:
"One more day of school This was to a variant of "One man went to mow". Also, to the tune of "The Ash Grove" we sang:
"Our teacher's got a bunion Ah, childhood, such innocence(!?) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 12 Dec 01 - 05:52 AM We used to sing "Build a bonfire, build a bonfire put the teachers on the top put the prefects in the middle and burn the f*!*!*g lot" and this at a selctive grammar school for girls |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Penny S. Date: 12 Dec 01 - 05:23 PM The tune to the bits that looked like it would be, as above, was a variant of "One man went to mow". The rest of it was chanted. In 2/4 time. And I believe there was a bit about "No more spiders in my tea, making ugly looks at me," but I scorn it as repetitious. Unless, of course, there were that many spiders. The repetitious black bits above may be because someone has corrected a message that went out uncompleted, cut off at bl.... Hence the attacking heads. Penny |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Wyrd Sister Date: 13 Dec 01 - 02:30 PM No more school, no more stick, No more bloody arithmetic No more English, no more French, No more sitting on the old school bench. If the teacher interferes Knock her out and box her ears! To which my children added: If that does not serve her right We'll blow her up with dynamite. Recently I've heard: We break up, we break up, we don't care if the school blows up, No more English, no more French, No more sitting on the old school bench to the tune of 'Knick Knack Paddywhack" I'll ask around tomorrow for any modern versions. By the way, 'bonfire' guest, was your school AGGS? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: DMcG Date: 14 Dec 01 - 02:35 PM In my (primary) school, it wasn't "no more English, No more French" but "No more Latin, no more French" Delusions of grandeur, perhaps! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Sunni Bloom Date: 27 Jul 09 - 05:42 AM one more day of school, one more day of sorrow, one more day in this old dump and we'll be home tomorrow school breaks up, school breaks down, we dont care if the school falls down, no more english, no more french, no more sitting on the old school bench if that teacher interfears, blew her up and box her ears |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Tug the Cox Date: 27 Jul 09 - 06:50 AM A variant started one more day and where will we be out of the gates of purgatry. 'Build a bonfire' was to the tune of Clementine. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 27 Jun 10 - 02:03 AM hey this is the one one more day of school one more day of sorrow one more day of this old dump and ill be home tomorrow god made the bees the bees made the honey we do all the hard work and the teachers get the money |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,PeterC Date: 27 Jun 10 - 07:58 AM From my junior school I can only remember singing the first three lines. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 19 Jul 10 - 12:33 PM one more day of school, one more day of sorrow, one more day in this old dump and we'll be home tomorrow school breaks up, school breaks down, we dont care if the school falls down, no more english, no more french, no more sitting on the old school bench if that teacher interfears, blew her up and box her ears my mum taught me that at a very young age :) |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Sami Date: 27 Aug 10 - 02:56 PM no more pencils, no more books no more teachers dirty looks reading science and arithmetic none months of that can make you sick |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Penny S. Date: 27 Aug 10 - 05:20 PM Would it be helpful if posters said where their variants were heard? Penny |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Little Robyn Date: 27 Aug 10 - 05:35 PM My Mum, in NZ used to chant something similar: One more day and we will be Out of the gates of misery No more marching 2 by 2 Like the monkeys in the zoo No more spelling, no more sums No more teachers to smack our bums No more latin, no more french No more sitting on a hard wood bench I can't remember any more of that one but I heard the other one sung by Isla StClair at Loughborough FF back in 1972. From memory it goes: Come to my school, come to my school It's a life of misery There's a signpost on the corner Saying welcome unto thee Don't believe it, don't believe it It's a pack of dirty lies If it wasna for the teachers We would be in paradise Build a bonfire, build a bonfire Put the Headie on the top Put the teachers round the middle And burn the bl***y lot! That was sung with a Scottish accent. Robyn |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Joybell Date: 28 Aug 10 - 02:16 AM OK. For the record. In Melbourne Australia, mid 1950s, we sang the song that Joe gives above: School's out, school's out! The teachers let the monkeys out. No more pencils, no more books, No more teachers' dirty looks! Sometimes with the added line -- Kick the tables, kick the chairs, kick the teachers down the stairs!(also in Joe's post) Truelove (born and raised in USA) adds that he saw the line "no more pencils etc" in an "Archie" comic around 1950. He didn't sing it and didn't know how it was sung. (In Aus. we chanted it.) Cheers, Joy |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,AS Date: 24 Nov 10 - 04:08 AM In the early nineties we sang the following song at school in Surrey: We break up, They break down, We don't care if the school falls down, No more English, No more French, No more sitting on the old school bench If that teacher disagrees Tie her up and box her ears If that does not do the trick, Dynamite will make her sick |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 13 Dec 10 - 11:19 PM My be-bunioned teacher had a nose like a squashed tomato in Middlesex. Oh yes, it was the "The Ashgrove" that was sung to the tune of "My Teacher's got a bunion," as far as I was concerned! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Sarah Date: 20 Dec 10 - 05:52 PM At our primary we sang somethin like this but I cant remember the first bit... We dont care if the school falls down, there'll be no more english no more french, no more sittin on the old school bench. We are ace, we are cool we all come from liverpool, if you want a fight then step this way. Whats it like in alderhey... Then it carried on with about 4 more verses. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Jo. Date: 17 Feb 11 - 02:18 PM we sung this You add your own schools name and headteacher ours was Manor green school and Etches was our headmaster. One more day to go, one more day of sorrow one more day at Manor green school and we'll be off tomorrow, no more english, no more french, no more sitting at the old school bench, when old Etches rings the bell, grab your coat and run like hell! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 17 Feb 11 - 04:17 PM no more days of school, no more days of sorrow, no more days in this old dump and we'll be home tomorrow |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 23 Apr 11 - 12:34 PM From Trinidad! No More Latin no more french no more sitting on de ole school bench when de teacher ring de bell pick up ya books and run like hell! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 07 Jun 11 - 11:04 AM School's out! School's out! Teacher let the fools out! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 14 Aug 11 - 04:12 PM Late 90s to early 00s, central London primary (to tune of 'This Old Man' and as a clapping game): School bells up,school bells down I don't care if school falls down They'll be no more English, no more French No more kissing on the Arsenal bench Teacher teacher I declare I can see your underwear Is it black or is it white? Oh my gosh it's dynamite! If your teacher interferes Tie her up and box her ears If that doesn't shut her up Dynamite will blow her up It's really interesting to see that the basic rhyme was around as long ago as the 70s and that there are so many versions! I've really enjoyed all your contributions, thanks. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Guest Date: 06 Nov 11 - 11:41 PM yes, my mother went to school in Middlesex, O-levels 1940, she taught me the 'Ashgrove' song mentioned above "The teacher's got a bunion, a nose like a pickled onion, a face like a squashed tomato, and legs like match sticks" |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 15 Dec 11 - 10:43 AM no more days of school, no more days of sorrow, no more sitting on the old school bench and we'll be home tomorrow. kick the tables, kick the chairs, kick the teacher down the stairs, can't remember the next bit! We break up, we break up we don't care if school blows up no more english no more french no more sitting on the old school bench if the teacher interferes tie her up and box her ears it the teacher makes us write blow her up with dynamite! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 15 Dec 11 - 12:07 PM These are the songs of kids who feel secure about their lives enough to laugh in the face of authority. I knew a woman who taught Spanish is a charter school in Kansas City. Almost all the students came from poor families. One day she told me that her students never wanted to stay home from school, whether they were sick or for another reason. "At school, nobody beats them." Makes you think, doesn't it? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,guest samuel Date: 30 Jan 12 - 08:13 AM One more day of school one more day of sorrow, o ne more day of this old dump and we'll be home tomorrow, no more spiders in our tea making finny faces at me, No more matrons in our bath taking sexy photographs To the tine of one man went to mow That's all I remember but think theres another verse Of course bot very pc these days! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Kat Date: 25 Apr 12 - 10:04 PM Loool, it's been bugging me for ages how this song went. The one I knew went along to nick nack paddy whack. Upside Down Upside Down, i dont care if school falls down, no more english, no more french, no more sitting on the old school bench. If the teacher rings the bell, pull her t*ts and run like hell Cant remember how the rest went though lol |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 29 May 12 - 04:32 PM no more pencils no more books no more teachers dirty looks when the teachers ring the bell drop you books and run like hello operator down number 9 if you disconnect me i will kick u in the behind there was a piece of glass beneath the fridgeerator susie fell upon it and broke her little ask me no more ???? tell me no more lies susie and her boyfriend were kissing in the d.A.R.K D.A.R.K D.A.R.K DARK DARKER THEN THE OCEAN DARKER THEN THE SEA darker then the underwear my mother puts on me !hey! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,GUEST Date: 15 Oct 12 - 08:59 PM 1970's Surrey We Break Up, We Break Down We don't care if the school falls down No more English, No More French No more sitting on the old school bench If the teacher interferes Turn around and box her ears If that does not serve her right Blow her up with gelignite (Definitely sung to the tune of "This old man") |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: MGM·Lion Date: 16 Oct 12 - 04:30 AM At both Northampton Town & County School, which I attended 1940-43, & Hendon County, 1943-50, it was "No more Latin no more French, No more whacks across the bench", though at neither of them was it the headmaster's practice to bend offenders over a bench for corporal punishment, but a table or desk. The Ash Grove "Teacher a bunion" &c was widespread at all my schools, of which there were 7 all told. As I had a wartime childhood, with evacuating from blitz, I attended 4 different schools, with maybe 12 weeks off when should have been at school, between my 8th & 9th birthdays. ~M~ |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Jimmy Date: 28 Jan 13 - 03:55 PM Chorus Down at our school teachers are so funny If tha' wants to see 'em tha'l have to pay some money Soldiers half a crown Sailors half a guinea Big fat men two and ten (£2.10) little kids a penny Down at our school things are rather funny Kids do all the bloody work and teachers get the money Chorus: Our Sir is Kind our Sir is Gentle Our Sir is Strong and our Sir is Mental Chorus: Ill tell you a tale about a snail That jumped in t' fire and burnt it's tail I'll tell you another about his brother He did the same the silly ould bugger Chorus: |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Guest Date: 29 Jan 13 - 02:29 PM The one that sticks in my mind - from the 1950s No more school No more stick (that was the cane) No more rotten old arithmetic I had mixed feelings about this because I enjoyed mathematics! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: dick greenhaus Date: 30 Jan 13 - 12:15 PM Brooklyn, NY, US 1930s XXX more days and we are free From this school of mi-de-ree No more pencils, no more books No more teachers' dirty looks and, a generation later, my kids sang (to a Burger King commercial's tune): It takes two hands to handle a teacher A two-headed creature, from outer space. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Jimmy Rotheram Date: 23 Jun 13 - 02:29 PM A fantastic teacher when I was at primary school sang a version of the song you are talking about, and I can still remember most of it. Down at our school, Teachers are so funny, If you want to see them, YOu'll have to pay some money, Soldiers half a crown, Sailors half a guinea, Big fat men, 2 and 10, Little kids a penny That was the chorus, and the verses he made up were brilliant. Mr Price is a holy man, He goes to church on Sundays, He prays to God to give him strength To bash all the kids on Mondays, Mr Smith's car, will go a mile If you go to the back and push it The mess within, Is like a dustbin If you sit on the top you'll crush it. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST Date: 24 Jul 13 - 04:35 PM Upside down right way up I don't care if school breaks up There will be no more English no more French No more sitting on the old school bench No more flies in my pies No more teachers telling lies And what will we do if they do Flush em down the old school loo! 1...2....3... Flush! Now they've gone far away Somewhere like the usa Sorry cant remember rest! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Pretty much Miranda Hart, but a bit shorter Date: 05 Dec 13 - 03:53 PM I'm currently doing A levels and we used to sing variations of this all the time: One more day and I shall be, out of this place of misery, god made the bees, bees made the honey, we do all the work, but the masters get the money. no more Latin no more French, no more sitting on the hard school bench, no more marmite in the butter, no more water from the gutter, no more spiders in my tea, smirking all so smug at me, no more earwigs in the stew, canings make us black and blue, kick the tables, kick the chairs, kick the master down the stairs, if that master interferes, knock him down and box him ears, if he's not content with that, fry his face in bacon fat, if that does not serve him right, blow him up with dynamite, build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put headmaster on the top, stick the monitors in the middle, then we'll burn the bl**dy lot! This, at a 400 year old boarding school, and we still sing it when feeling especially mutinous. Makes the masters uneasy. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Peter L Date: 04 Apr 14 - 04:24 AM Boarding school 1947-1952: we traditionally sang this at the end of each term (but only at the end of term). The tune derived from the first two lines of Good King Wenceslas, repeated ad infinitum. The first couplet was always No more Latin no more French No more sitting on the old school bench I've forgotten most of the others, but one, not cited above, was No more walking two by two Like a f***ing kangaroo When I got home for Christmas at the end of my first term, aged 8, I recited this in all innocence to my mum. (In those days that kind of language was not such common currency, at least in 'nice respectable' households). I'll never ever forget the stick I got! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Tug the Cox Date: 04 Apr 14 - 04:14 PM Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school We have tortured all the teachers - we have broken all the rules We ramrocked the offices and hung the principal March on, third grade, march on! Glory, glory, hallelujah My teacher hit me with a ruler I hid behind her door with a loaded .44 And the teacher don't teach no more! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Catherine May Date: 06 Jan 17 - 05:45 AM I had: Upside down, right way up, I don't care if school blows up! There'll be no more English, No more French, No more sitting on the old school bench! Teacher, teacher, I don't care, I can see your underwear! Is it black? Or is it white? Oh my gosh, Its dynamite, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Bye bye Teacher! Don't know how on earth I remember it all! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: Nigel Parsons Date: 06 Jan 17 - 08:49 AM From Cardiff, early 60s. One more day of school, One more day of sorrow One more day in this old dump But we'll be home tomorrow. God made the bees, The bees made the honey, We do all the dirty work But teacher gets the money. Come to our school, come to our school It's a place of misery There's a signpost on the corner Saying welcome unto thee Don't believe it, don't believe it It's a pack of dirty lies If it wasn't for the teachers It would be a paradise Build a bonfire, build a bonfire, Put the teachers on the top. Put the prefects on the bottom, And burn the bloody/blooming lot. (Bloody & blooming varied. Blooming pronounce 'blumming') Glory, Glory hallelujah. Teacher hit me with a ruler. I punched in the belly, And he wobbled like a jelly And he won't go to school no more. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'No more days of school' (Kids song) From: GUEST,Northern Monkey Date: 12 Aug 19 - 06:20 PM In Sheffield in the 90's we sang We broke up, we broke up We don't care if the school blows up They'll be no more english, no more french No more snogging on the old school bench So when the teacher rings the bell (Shouts) Grab your stuff and run like hell They'll be no more english no more french No more snogging on the old school bench Also we sang Build a bonfire, build a bonfire put the teachers on the top, put the school bus in the middle and burn the bloody lot |
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