New Edition School Lyrics

School Lyrics

Education!
Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike, and Ralph!
S C H O O L, you got to go to school and beat that bell.
E-mail, what goes here?________and ring, ding, dong.
We E-mail, what goes here?__________ rap about this song.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, the weekend`s here!
Well listen.
When I was very young I used to sit around the house watching Oil Can Harry
battle Mighty Mouse
Until my mother said, "Son, that`s not the way to be.  You`ve got to go to
school and learn your ABCs."
I said, "Is that it, mom?"
She said, "That`s not even half.  You`ve got to go to school, you got to
learn some math.
You got to learn you to count- 1, 2, 3- and then get freshed up on the
history."
My first day of school I`ll never forget. My teacher said, "Recite the
alphabet."
I said, "A E M E L R," and, as you can see, I didn`t get very far.
The teacher said, "Son, there`s nothing to it.  Before the day`s over,
you`ll learn how to do it.
And not only that, you`ll learn how to read, and that`s one thing in life
you`ll always need."
Well, school`s not all work. There`s fun things to do like gym, lunch, and
recess, too.
Kindergarten was easy.  It was mostly play. What I was worried about was
elementary.
S C H O O L, you got to go to school and beat that bell.
_______________ and ring, ding, dong.
We  ______________ rap about this song.   (2)
Ha!  Now something got wrong.  I took another turn.
I didn`t want to study, didn`t even want to learn.
Didn`t want to go to class.  I was always late because school became something
that I started to hate.
Started hanging with my boys; didn`t mean no harm.  We was going around the
school pulling fire alarms.
I was a chilly homeboy, yes, I was down because I came to school just to mess
around.
I started hanging in the halls, writing on the walls, until I got started
playing basketball.
But I didn`t have a job so I couldn`t get paid and I couldn`t play ball because
of my grades.
But I still used to practice each and every day in case the coach decided to
let me play.
But it didn`t work out the way I planned, so I ran to a man who said he can
understand the troubles I was going through.
He said, "Son it`s all about going to school."
So I E-mail, what goes here?________ and now I`m moving up to the big leagues: 
high school.
S C H O O L, you got to go to school and beat that bell.
__________________ and ring, ding, dong.
We got a  ________________ about this song. (2)
Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike, and Ralph!
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,  Thursday, Friday, the weekend`s here!
E-mail, what goes here?____________
I`m feeling cool `cause I was going on to something they call "high
school."
And I feel important, `cause things aren`t the same, wondering why nobody knows
my name.
That became something that I started to miss, and now that I`m here it feels
like a big dis.
But, anyway, I had to leave.  I had something to achieve.
It was singing- yeah- that`s what I wanted to do, so I got a tutor, because I`m
no fool.
Dropping out of school is quite absurd, and it`s something New Edition just
spread the word.
Stay in school!
S C H O O L, you got to go to school and beat that bell.......
Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, and Mike, and Ralph.....
(Repeat and fade....)