School Days!

When I was a kid my family would often go on long car trips. We were a large group often seven or eight of us packed in the station wagon. Without air conditioning patience could fray, but I honestly remember those trips fondly. Entertainment was conversation, reading and singing songs.

 I have a delightful memory of singing with mom. I see her clapping her hands encouraging us to keep the melody and beat of the song. WE ALL loved singing with mom.

Anyone remember this song? If you do- you may find yourself giggling. I can't imagine why I have a fondness for this particular song? Can you? Just to be clear, I want nothing to do with a hickory stick!  LOL.

Music by Gus Edwards |  Lyrics by Will D. Cobb (1907)

School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick
You were my queen in calico
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate
"I love you, so"
When we were a couple of kids
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

School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick
You were my queen in calico
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate
"I love you, so"
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 storeys
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 business plots
They've cut them up
Since those days

School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days.
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick
You were my queen in calico
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote on my slate
"I love you, so"
When we were a couple of kids

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/schooldaysmp3.htm

You can hear the melody with the link above. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the quick time thingy!

I plan to cherish all the memories I have this Thanksgiving and following Holiday season.

Food for thought!

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

 ~From the television show The Wonder Years

 Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.  ~Jean de Boufflers

We do not remember days; we remember moments.  ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand 

Happy Thanksgivng!