# Anti-school songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844 "2000-06-09T04:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@Lor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lor)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/1 "2000-06-09T04:56:47Z")
This being June and the time of year that kids get out of school, I remembered how my brother and my friends and I used to blow off steam by singing what we called anti-school songs. You remember these… Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, Throw your teacher overboard and listen to her scream! Or, my personal fave, Deck the halls with gasoline, fa la la la la, la la la la, Light a match and watch it gleam, fa la la la la, la la la la, Watch the textbooks turn to ashes, fa la la, la la la, la la la! Aren’t you glad you played with matches? fa la la la la, la la la la! Nowadays, schools are soooo paranoid about weapons and violent behavior, this kind of stuff would get a kid either arrested or permanently suspended. But I remember how we’d laugh and feel some of the school-induced stress melt away. I think we should preserve this almost-lost art for a future, less-paranoid time. Anybody got any new ones to add to my “archives”? ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/2 "2000-06-09T05:31:46Z")
\*Glory, glory, hallelujah - teacher hit me with a ruler, met her at the door with a loaded .44, and she ain’t my teacher no more . . . \* Geez, thats bad I know. On a more professional level : Alice Cooper, _Schools out for summer ! Schools out for ever !!_ **ROCK, ROCK !!** ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/3 "2000-06-09T05:54:31Z")
I don’t care about history cuz that’s not where I wanna be I just wanna have some kicks I just wanna get some chicks well the girls out there knock me out you know cruisin around in my GTO I hate the teachers and the principal don’t wanna be taught to be no fool rock rock rock rock rock ‘n’ roll high school –Ramones, Rock ‘N’ Roll High School ---
**Author:** ![Ptahlis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@Ptahlis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ptahlis)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/4 "2000-06-09T06:12:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > \*Glory, glory, hallelujah - > teacher hit me with a ruler, > met her at the door with a loaded .44, > and she ain’t my teacher no more . . . \* > > Geez, thats bad I know. > > \*\* Hey Nothing Man, I remember that one too. That was the chorus, but there was a verse the lyrics of which I can only dimly remember. It began: _Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school, We (something something) principal we have broken every rule._ Two more lines I don’t recall at all and then the chorus. Can you fill in the gaps? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/5 "2000-06-09T06:43:28Z")
This bit about the .44 is new to me, at my school we just “hit her in the butt with a rotten coconut”. Then again I went to Catholic school. Anyway the first verse went: _Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school We have tortured every teacher we have broken every rule And tomorrow afternoon we plan to hang the principal Our truth is marching on._ And here’s another song: \*We had joy, we had fun Selling liquor on the run In the basement of St Ambrose school Run run run I think I hear a nun Grab all the liquor you can hold If she grabs you by the ear Say “Sister have a beer!” In the basement of St Ambrose school\* OK that one’s a bit crap … ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/6 "2000-06-09T07:40:54Z")
_I Don’t Like Mondays_ – Boomtown Rats "The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload. And noone’s gonna go to school today she’s gonna make them stay at home. And Daddy doesn’t understand it he says she’s always been good as gold. And he can see no reason, cause there are no reasons, what reasons do you need to be shown. (Tell me why) I don’t like Mondays. (Tell me why) I don’t like Mondays. (Tell me why) I don’t like Mondays. I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oot the whole day down. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/7 "2000-06-09T15:08:21Z")
“We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control…” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/8 "2000-06-09T16:24:50Z")
Hail to the fornicators, Hail to the masterbators, Hail, hail, to Michigan, The cesspool of the world. Hail to the mother fu**ers, Hail to those big co**suckers, Hail, hail, to Michigan, The a\*\*holes of the world. (alternative verse) Hail to the auto workers, Hail to the circle jerkers, Hail, hail, to Michigan, The a\*\*holes of the world. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/9 "2000-06-09T17:14:23Z")
In fifth or sixth grade Keith Stevens taught me the following while we washed dishes in the lunchroom: \*From the halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli We will fight our teachers in battle With spitwad artillery We will fight for linger recess We will keep our desk a mess We are proud to claim the title Of “Teacher’s little pest.”\* as well as the “Glory glory hallelujah” song **NothingMan** relates. Except, for some reason, we added a parenthetical line: \*Glory, glory, hallelujah - Teacher hit me with a ruler, There’s a girl behind the door with a loaded .44, There’s a boy behing the gate with a loaded .38, And she ain’t my teacher no more . . . \* I agree; it’s not nearly so amusing now as it was way back then. And, **Connor** , where did _that_ one come from? It’s the wrong tense to be self-deprecating, and too vitriolic to be tongue-in-cheek. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/10 "2000-06-10T03:48:06Z")
> [@](#): > > **Glory, glory, hallelujah - > teacher hit me with a ruler, > met her at the door with a loaded .44, > and she ain’t my teacher no more . . .** I went to her funeral, I went to her grave Some people threw flowers; I threw a grenade. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@The\_Raven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/11 "2000-06-10T04:58:00Z")
Ah, and to think that I could’ve gotten in trouble for singing these songs today…makes me feel about 12 years older. And for the holiday break ripoff songs: “Joy to the world my teacher’s dead we bar-e-qued her head! And flushed it down the potty” …and I forget the rest ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/12 "2000-06-10T14:41:15Z")
You can find a lot of these in the book _Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood_ by Josepha Sherman and T. K. F. Weisskopf. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/13 "2000-06-10T15:09:26Z")
Three cheers for our U.D. High! You bring the whiskey, I’ll bring the wine. Send the sophomores out for gin, Don’t let a sober senior in! We’ll never stumble, we’ll never fall! We sober up on wood alcohol! While the U.D faculty lies drunk on the barroom floor! Upper Darby (Pa.) was my alma mater. My folks would be so proud. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/14 "2000-06-10T21:07:45Z")
_said chanting_ No more school No more books No more teachers dirty looks Thats the only one I can think of. ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/15 "2000-06-10T21:29:24Z")
> [@](#): > > **And for the holiday break ripoff songs: > “Joy to the world > my teacher’s dead > we bar-e-qued her head! > And flushed it down the potty” > …and I forget the rest** “joy to the world the teachers dead we bar-be qued hr head, what happened to her body, we fushed it down the potty …and thats the end of her …and thats the end of her …and thaaaaats the end of her” ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-school-songs/21844/16 "2000-06-10T21:31:23Z")
On top of Old Smokey All covered with sand I shot my poor teacher with a red rubber band I shot her with glory I shot her with pride I couldn’t have missed her she was 80 feet wide I went to her funeral I went to her grave instead of throwing flowers I threw hand grenades