That'll teach you! Songs that are lessons

Square One TV taught math to a whole generation through songs:

Oh, and SunWife found this when our kids were very little:

Dan & Yael - Tremendous Earth Vol. 1

A bunch of songs on the album that teach geography and science.

And, TMBG did a children’s album called “Here Comes Science”. Here’s two of the songs (“Why Does the Sun Shine?” and “Why Does the Sun Really Shine” - the second corrects the first) from it, as performed on the Craig Ferguson show.

Tom Lehrer’s Vatican Rag, which teaches you all you need to know about the Catholic church service. “First you get down on your knees, fiddle with your rosaries. Bow your head with great respect, and genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!”

"Alexa, play “Figure 8”.
Beautiful, ain’t it?

There is oft repeated “let me teach you about how terrible women are (before going on to sing my other songs about how I habitually mistreat, objectify, and gaslight women)” lesson song

Dazed and Confused
American Woman
Etc…

No. Again, no morality plays or “Love is great/love sucks” songs. Otherwise, the title of this thread would just be “Name a song”.

There is Quark Strangeness and Charm by Hawkwind. Though that will mainly teach you how Hawkwind knew absolutely nothing about the love life of Albert Einstein and very little about quantum physics :wink:

Thirty posts in, and no one has mentioned the ABC Song?

(I’ve always called it the Alphabet Song. But apparently the formal name for it is the ABC Song.)

Step one, cut a hole in a box.

As mentioned on the SovCit thread 99 Problems by Jay Z is actually a very good lesson in probable cause w.r.t. vehicle searches.

“Make an Omelette” teaches you how to make an omelette:

Unlike 99 Problems more political polemic than useful advice :wink: “Murder is a crime unless it’s done by a policeman” that’s not gonna help you much when you get pulled over.

I know almost everything I know about the diggers (at least before the subject came up in Revolutions podcast) from the Billy Bragg song The World Turned Upside Down;

Need a hole in the ground?

Unless it’s Richard and Linda Thompson’s “Hokey Pokey”, which teaches you… ummm… something else entirely.

Eddie Rabbitt has a lesson on how to get up a woman in Step by Step.

First step is ask her out and treat her like a lady, and so forth.

I learned about Alexander The Great from Iron Maiden.

Slightly dated advice: