Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...

[Benjamin Barrett]

On top of old Smoky, all covered with blood
I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug.
I went to her funeral, I went to her grave
But instead of throwing flowers, I threw hand grenades.

I also had the .44 version rather than tangerines. I didn't realize what
I violent neighborhood I grew up in, lol. BB

Charles Doyle wrote:
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> Date:         Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:50:15 -0700
> From:         Jonathan Lighter <[log in to unmask]>
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> Ah, yes, the TEACHER: that forbidding (if not malovelent) figure looming in the psychological landscape of American children--fair game for those hostilities that attachments to actual parents would make difficult.
>
>     On top of old Smoky, all covered with sand,
>     I shot my old teacher with a green rubberband.
>     I shot her with pleasure, I shot her with pride.
>     I couldn't have missed her; she's forty-feet wide.
>
> --Charlie
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> As I remember it:
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>   Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school.
>   We have tortured every teacher; we have broken every rule.
>   We'll go down to the office and we'll hang the principal,
>   As we go marching on.
>
>   Glory, glory, hallelujah!
>   Teacher hit me with a ruler!
>   I bopped her on the bean with a rotten tangerine,
>   As we go marching on.
>
>   The "tangerine" line was sometimes replaced with, "I met her at the door with a loaded .44." And sometimes both were sung in tandem, with the bean-bopping coming first.
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