SCHOOL DAYS

 

1907

by

 

Will Cobb and Gus Edwards

School days, school days,

Good old golden rule days

Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic,

Taught to the tune of a hick'ry stick,

You were my queen in calico,

I was your bashful barefoot beau,

 And you wrote on my slate,

 "I love you, Joe,"

When we were a couple of kids.

 

 

There were no notebooks and paper might have been

scarce.  So all children had a small "slate" which was

a small chalk board with a wooden frame around it that

each child carried to school and wrote on to do their lessons.

The hickory stick was what the teacher used to keep the

children's attention in class, by sometimes hitting it on a

desk or using it as a pointer to the big board in the classroom.