Remember this school song

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:49 pm

"Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school.
we have tortured every teacher, we have broken every rule.
Now we're marching to the office to shoot the principal, our troops are marching on."

Later it goes, "She was standing at the door with a loaded forty-four and our troops are marching on."

It was just a silly song that they would sing on a school bus, no one meant it, no one took seriously because it was just silliness.

Today, if you sang that song in school they would probably call in the National Guard. Come on world, let's chill out a little.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:53 pm

"Glory, glory hallelujah!
Teacher hit me wth a ruler.
Blew her out the door
With a loaded forty-four
And she don't teach no more!"

I heard a few versions, growing up. Another variant went "met her in the attic with a semiautomatic."

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:05 pm

The version I knew was "met her at the door with a loaded 44 . . "

*******
How about:

"Nobody loves me.
Everybody hates me.
I'm gonna eat some wor-r-ms.
First you bite their heads off.
Then you suck their guts out.
Mmm-mmm.
I'm gonna eat some wor-r-ms."
**********

And of course it's not PC now for kids to sing about 99 bottles of beer on the wall.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:36 am

Charlene wrote:And of course it's not PC now for kids to sing about 99 bottles of beer on the wall.

Probably wasn't, back in the day, either.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:53 am

We used to bring knives to school to cut birthday cake. Play "Cowboys" and "Army". The big slides on the playground were great B-17's. The swings were Spitfires. Sticks and rulers became submachine guns.
We shot rubber bands and paper clips.
We even brought real jacknives to play "stretch" or that one game where you throw the knife at each other's feet.

Sadly, this violent play turned us all into sadistic mass murderers in adult life.

missy · Post by **missy** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:05 am

Noah takes FENCING at school - but we've had a unique experience with this......

He took 2 years at a private school. No limits on weapons used.

He is now taking at a public school (from the same salon that teaches at the private school). They are limited to rapiers only at the public school - no broad swords.

Makes no sense to me.........

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:10 am

missy wrote:Noah takes FENCING at school - but we've had a unique experience with this......

He took 2 years at a private school. No limits on weapons used.

He is now taking at a public school (from the same salon that teaches at the private school). They are limited to rapiers only at the public school - no broad swords.

Makes no sense to me.........

I took foil fencing in high school.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:24 am

I bet “one little two little three little Indians” isn’t sang any more.

I honestly think that I would not have been able to make it through the modern school system. Between the clothing I wore, the music I listened to, the poetry I read (and wrote), and my hobbies, I would have been one of those Zero tolerance kids. After all, a boy without a watch and a pocket knife isn't worth a darn.

On the bright side, how will children know freedom without being forced into a police state? How will they know freedom of speech without constant censorship? How will they ever desire creativity without being told to sit down shut up and just memorize the test questions? Oh, wait…

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:52 pm

We used to sing (to the tune of "i'd like to teach the world to sing")..

Id like to teach the IRA to blow up (insert name)..school,
With gelegnite and dynamite, and all things that go BOOM!

SBS144 · Post by **SBS144** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:09 pm

They cyber police are probably monitoring these messages and intercepting data to come after everyone using WMD's....namely a few already listed.....welcome to the 21st century..... In the name of homeland security. What a seriously scary time we live in.

MarkS · Post by **MarkS** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:13 pm

Walden wrote:"Glory, glory hallelujah! etc...

We'd sing this first, then segue into "Glory Glory Hallelujah!":

(Sung to "Off We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder")

Off we go, into the lunch room yonder,
Pushing girls out of the way!
Forward boys, moving along the counter,
Grab some grub, fill up your tray!

Try some beans,
They were prepared last Friday,
And the meat's
Tough as a mule!

The soup's cold,
The bread's got mold,
Anything beats the food they serve in school!

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:20 pm

The version I remember goes:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
we have tortured every teacher and broken every rule
barbecued the principal and destroyed the PTA
us kids go marching on!

Glory glory hallelujah ((sung more like "hallelujer" in a typical GA accent))
teacher hit me with a ruler
I hit her on the butt
with a rotten coconut
and my teacher ain't my teacher no more!

I had great fun singing in the one time the school actually *did* catch on fire, apparently some kid lit a small one in a plastic garbage can and ruined a couple of rooms before they put it out. I thought it was all great fun, of course.

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:44 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:We used to bring knives to school to cut birthday cake. Play "Cowboys" and "Army". The big slides on the playground were great B-17's. The swings were Spitfires. Sticks and rulers became submachine guns.
We shot rubber bands and paper clips.
We even brought real jacknives to play "stretch" or that one game where you throw the knife at each other's feet.

Sadly, this violent play turned us all into sadistic mass murderers in adult life.

Mumbledeepeg? (pardon the spelling)

We used to make catapults and trebuchets in the woods, then graduated to the venerable potato-gun-howitzer. Our best 'tater went 975 metres (nearly a klick) using Tame hairspray.

Wasn't it Columbine that kicked us into paranoia-mode? There were Canadian incidents, too.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:17 pm

When I was in school (1980's-90's), the handbook permitted us to carry knives with blades 5" or less.

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:21 pm

Chiffed wrote: Mumbledeepeg? (pardon the spelling)

Can't help with the spelling - I've never seen it written!
You're the second person on the the planet I've even known to use the word.

BTW ... what is a mumbledypeg?