Manager (commerce) 5.8
Professional footballer 5.8
Shop assistant 5.7
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Farmer 4.8
Soldier 4.7
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Librarian 2.0
Her name was Caroline Foley
And she taught 4th grade.
I was her favorite student
I thought for three decades.
She read my stories to the room
I sat beside her desk.
I loved the way she sang to us
I even loved her tests.
But teachers they’re just lazy
that’s what the people say.
They baby-sit till three o’clock
and then they’re home all day.
And think of those vacations,
all that time away.
If I’d never had a teacher,
I’d still turn out okay.
She had a lot of textbooks
she left them on the shelf.
Miss Foley taught with projects,
we wrote some books ourselves.
I studied the Egyptians,
that Pharaoh of the sun.
I still have my cardboard pyramid,
my tomb of Achnaton.
But teachers they’re just lazy
that’s what the people say.
They baby-sit till three o’clock
and then they’re home all day.
And think of those vacations,
all that time away.
If I’d never had a teacher,
I’d still turn out okay.
She rarely lost her temper
but when she did we knew
and later she’d apologize
and we’d say sorry too.
She wasn’t always perfect
but she usually was kind
and she had a way of holding up
a mirror to our minds.
But teachers they’re just lazy
that’s what the people say.
They baby-sit till three o’clock
and then they’re home all day.
And think of those vacations,
all that time away.
If I’d never had a teacher,
I’d still turn out okay.
Miss Foley never married
she never had offspring
unless you count the six hundred
she cheered on to sing.
We rarely come to visit her
we hardly ever write.
but she follows us around each day
and sits with us each night.
Billy is a scientist
Jane, she reads the news.
Sarah is a doctor now
Phil just gave up booze.
We met at the reunion
and talked about the past.
Who was your favorite teacher?
What was your favorite class?
Remember Mr. Johnston,
we all played ancient Greeks.
Miss Hawthorne read a poem by Keats,
the tears ran down her cheeks.
and what about Miss Foley,
her class was so much fun.
I was her favorite student
we say in unison.
But teachers they’re just lazy
that’s what the people say.
They baby-sit till three o’clock
and then they’re home all day.
And think of those vacations,
all that time away.
If I’d never had a teacher,
I’d still turn out okay.
Oh ,you, who pay the taxes!
Oh ,you, who make the laws!
Remember all your teachers
and cherish them because,
You wouldn’t be so self assured.
No, you wouldn’t be so smart
if you hadn’t had a Miss Foley
to hold you in her heart.
But teachers they’re just lazy
It’s what you often say.
They baby-sit till three o’clock
and then they’re home all day
and think of those vacations
all that time away,
If I’d never had a teacher....
If I’d never had a teacher....
If I’d never had a teacher....
Who would I be today?
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