THE BLESSING OF EDUCATION

Good news, good news, my comrades,

                Let us praise the powers that be,

They are going to educate us one and all.

                We can tell the world in general

That a super race are we,

                And they days of work are gone beyond recall.

Thon “Hurrah!” for Education

                We should all be overjoyed

To be making preparation to join the unemployed;

                Though our muscles are no stronger

Never worry, what’s the use,

                Our clothes will last longer

Since we give them less abuse.

We can play at Marx and Lenin

                Raving nothing else to do,

And we’ll stretch the Iron Country

                By another yard or two.

When we reach the goal, my comrades,

                We will make our Heaven here

We can draw the dole, my comrades,

                Week by week, and year by year.

Though the mothers who have bore us

                Brand us lazy useless knaves,

And the men who went before us

                May be turning in their graves.