School Days (1907)

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8 жыл бұрын

A nostalgic song. Words and music by Cobb & Edwards. Published by Gus Edwards Music Pub. Co., New York City.
sung by Sheet Music Singer, Fred Feild
piano according to the sheet music
tempo = 150 bpm, valse moderato
1. Nothing to do, Nellie Darling, nothing to do you say
Let's take a trip on memory's ship, back to the bygone days
Sail to the old village school house
Anchor outside the school door
Look in and see, there's you and there's me
A couple of kids once more
Chorus:
School days, school days, dear old golden rule days
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic
Taught to the tune of a hickry 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
2. 'Member the hill, Nellie Darling
And the oak tree that grew on it's brow?
They've built forty stories upon that old hill
And the oak's an old chestnut now
'Member the meadows so green dear
So fragrant with clover and maize
Into new city lots and preferred bus'ness plots
They've cut them up since those days
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Get the sheet music and MIDI at:
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@ReactarooSkidoo 3 жыл бұрын

My mom would wake us up for school singing this song. It took me 30 years to look it up. She's not with us anymore but I sing it to my kids now.

@mmbella1965 Жыл бұрын

omg my Dad sang it every year through high school!❤❤

@leighaking2012 5 жыл бұрын

My grandmother is in end stage Alzheimer's, and as a child, she always sang this to me! I just googled the lyrics I could remember, I can't wait to go see her and play it for her. I just hope it brings her joy!

@nicodemus7774 5 жыл бұрын

Leigha King Ah my friend, sorry about your Nan.

@leighaking2012 5 жыл бұрын

@@nicodemus7774 thank you, sadly she passed away Friday, on the 6th Anniversary of my daddy's death!

@nicodemus7774 5 жыл бұрын

Leigha King Oh.. I.. I am extremely sorry for your loss, must have been to tough to handle.

@caballero3601 3 жыл бұрын

Please tell us if you got to sing it to her

@JennieMSprouse 4 жыл бұрын

My kindergarten teacher used to sing this to us and now I’m eighteen and off to college, I don’t know why this was so memorable to me but it definitely stuck with me all these years!

@starr2716 2 жыл бұрын

My papa used to sing this to me, hes been gone for almost 5 years now and I’m in tears. I randomly had these lyrics come into my head and had to look them up. And now here I am, bawling LOL!!! I can’t wait to see you again ❤️ until then we connect through the love and music we shared❤️

@tscheats8154 3 жыл бұрын

My Papa called me the day after Labor Day (first day of school), every year. All the way through my senior year in high school. He passed one year this week. This Chorus will stick with me the rest of my life! RIP Ronald! ❤️

@sondrasmith2691 2 ай бұрын

I remembered this song today, and had to try to find it. This time is gone forever. ❤

@joshrushaselvis 5 жыл бұрын

The first day back to school after summer break my stepdad would sing this to wake me up for school...aggravated the hell outta me 😂

@BryanOmega6 3 жыл бұрын

I remember in music class we heard this and it never got out of my head so I finally decided to search it up

@caballero3601 3 жыл бұрын

So glad I found this. My grandfather taught it to me in the late '60s when I was in 3rd grade. All I remembered was the chorus. When he was a young man & before he married he performed in vaudeville shows where he played saxophone in a band with his sister. He was also an end man in a minstrel troupe. This had to have been one of the songs he sang\played.

@sheetmusicsinger9651 3 жыл бұрын

I bet it was. School Days is one of my most viewed videos.

@mrsgreenacres 6 жыл бұрын

I play this for my kids every first day of school. Just like my dad did for us growing up :)

@DesertBluebells 4 жыл бұрын

Precious old days, thank you Sir!!

@sedatdindar7511 2 жыл бұрын

It is a very beautiful song. Both the lyrics and the melody of the song are very beautiful. I felt the smell of chalk while listening to the song. I can hear the sound of chalk writing on the blackboard. The chalk dust mixes with the air and soils our clothes.. The past time was beautiful.

@Paraselene_Tao 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad my (k through 12) education taught me to read and write sheet music. I'm no expert at it. I hope my kids learn too.

@Paraselene_Tao 3 жыл бұрын

PS, Thanks for posting the sheet music.

@MamaJacqueroo 5 жыл бұрын

I still sing this occasionally. I never forgot this song I learned in 2nd grade. But I only remember the School Days refrain.

@RubyDragon722 2 жыл бұрын

Guess we all have those stories of parents singing this to us when we were kids. My mother did, when I was in grammar school.

@thekraemer1757 Ай бұрын

People in the good old days dreaming of the good old days.

@riverthecrybaby9448 3 жыл бұрын

I am visiting my grandmothers house right now, sewing on my grandmothers sewing machine, And I saw a statue of an apple on top of a Book stack. I realized it was my great great grandmothers and i spent 2 hours searching for this song, but I found it here!!

@ulexite-tv Жыл бұрын

Oh, another old favourite of mine. The first verse and chorus are so sentimental (if you disregard the hick'ry stick) but the second verse is GRIM AS HELL -- "They've paved paradise and put up a parking lot" circa 1907! Thanks for singing this.

@debrabrown8901 4 жыл бұрын

I told my grandchildren that there was an old song about school days. I never knew anything but the chorus. I am glad to find it and will share with the kids on their next visit. Thank you so much for posting and sharing.

@ReactarooSkidoo 4 жыл бұрын

Seems like I'm not the only one but my mom would wake me up to go to school singing this song. It was in the 1990s. I sure miss her.

@mrsheatherteske Жыл бұрын

Same here ❤️

@thenuclearbomb605 Жыл бұрын

"Aw, dangit! My little brother's trying to follow me to school again!" The beginning of a legend

@maddalonefarms 3 жыл бұрын

“Ah, damn it! My little brother's trying to follow me to school again!”

@tseye2478 3 жыл бұрын

“Ike, you can’t come to school with!”

@SegaMama91 2 жыл бұрын

Punaner!

@robertfazio387 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like Joaquin Phoenix ♥ Thankso much Cob, Edwards and Fred !! ♥♥

@kjohnson7259 5 жыл бұрын

havent heard this since 1987. wowzers! taking me back

@aliadizzle 4 жыл бұрын

I played this in piano lessons when I was a little girl, and I remember my grandma used to sing the words along as I fumbled through it! It pops into my head from time to time and I wanted to hear the words, and this video and singing was such a delight. Thank you for posting it! It brought such a smile to my face remembering my grandma :) (I'm 37 as I write this, for an age reference!)

@ianking4909 3 жыл бұрын

My mom used to sing this to me in the morning to wake me up and I’d get so mad

@oicuff1635 2 жыл бұрын

Well I am a blubbering fool. My grandpa used to sing this to me. I forgot all about it.

@aaronhusar24 6 жыл бұрын

I have a video of my great-grandmother singing the chorus to me when I was a baby. Her parents were 17 and 12 when this song came out, 13 years before she was born.

@scheis123 6 жыл бұрын

This song just popped into my head, I did a search and found your video. I've never heard all the words, just knew the chorus. Thanks for publishing this!

@sheetmusicsinger9651 6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@busterpalindrome9139 3 жыл бұрын

I also only knew the chorus, or at least a version of it. I knew it from an old Kidsongs VHS tape. They only used the chorus, and changed the lyrics a bit, but it's definitely the same song.

@mariliaandaluz5238 2 жыл бұрын

Me, too.

@Wichitan 2 жыл бұрын

We used to sing this in music period when I was a kid, about o#j(d years ago (oops, keyboard malfunction...). Like pretty much everyone else, I just knew the chorus. Didn't realize it had verses.

@caroldefender4144 4 ай бұрын

@@busterpalindrome9139 Kidsongs had a tendency to change the lyrics of the songs they sang.

@MsCatslady 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this song. Remember my mother singing this to us. And remembered this for a friend who is teaching. lol

@Saintlawrence100 6 жыл бұрын

My mother used to sing me this song in the 50s. I thought she made it up... great post! Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

@karlasonaa 5 жыл бұрын

My grandmother sang it to me .. also in the 50's

@dbnd2240 5 жыл бұрын

my mother who grew up in the 50s sang this to me when i was in school in the 90s

@liawillcoxon3804 5 жыл бұрын

My mother sang this to me as a child, too. She grew up in the 70's, but her mother, who grew up in the 50's, sang it to her as a little girl. This and bicycle built for two are great for calming my nerves today! :)

@emmiestacy 10 ай бұрын

Mom used to sing the main part of this song. I never heard the full version of this til now when decided to look it up. I was just teasing my daughter with it lol

@andrewbarten7347 3 жыл бұрын

Bring back belting in schools!

@melissas7326 7 жыл бұрын

My grandmother used to sing this to me while we played a good old game of cards.

@sheetmusicsinger9651 7 жыл бұрын

School Days is turning out to be one of my most viewed songs!

@tiamarie6719 6 жыл бұрын

Same here. But, she used to sing this among other old songs as lullabies. They make me miss her.

@shelll9254 10 ай бұрын

OMG just had a flashback, and it's ,2023!✌️💗

@Milordvega 5 жыл бұрын

"Night time sharpens, heightens each sensation Darkness wakes, and stirs imagination...." Andrew Lloyd-Weber has some explaining to do

@deenababie 10 ай бұрын

I am waking up my little first grader grandbabe to this song today. She wants to stay in Nonna’s bed and snuggle and I kinda want to let her. I’m gonna play this song till she gets out of bed & comes for her pancakes and sausage on a crisp late summer morning.

@annlynn9 5 жыл бұрын

Just love this, though I only know the chorus. Great to have the verses.

@noahg5139 5 жыл бұрын

Why did this choke me up

@barbaraatkinson5703 4 жыл бұрын

Chokes me up as the site of my magnificent old high school is now covered with cell towers and condos. Guess it has long been thus???

@DesertBluebells 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe you are like me and recall a much sweeter innocent time. When school was a safe joy! Hugs to you, friend!

@timfrye3586 4 жыл бұрын

School Daze indeed..

@user-ro7zp2ug3o 5 жыл бұрын

My mother sand this throughout my school years in the 90s.

@ReactarooSkidoo 4 жыл бұрын

My mom did too in the 90s. I wonder where our moms got this from?

@sel9981 4 жыл бұрын

God damn it my little brother's trying to follow me to school agian

@noobmaster-wj3qm 3 жыл бұрын

School days School days Dear old golden rule days Reading and writing and rithmetic I feel really, really sick. Get up.

@mikelisacarb 7 жыл бұрын

Terrific! Thank you so much for posting this! One of those great old songs that people don't realize they can just spontaneously sing! That's true about the refrain, for sure! I looked it up because my plan is to learn the verses and bring it to local unaccompanied "pub sings", assuming that people will probably have no trouble joining in on the refrain . A real gem! (I'll let you know how it works!)

@sheetmusicsinger9651 7 жыл бұрын

Please do.

@mikelisacarb 7 жыл бұрын

Back to report on two different performances. First, I brought it to an unaccompanied "pub sing" of about fifteen mostly 25-35 year olds, and only two people joined in. Those two were over 50. (I'm 63) Seems like the millennials don't know it! Last Saturday I performed it at the Sounding Board Coffeehouse in West Hartford, CT, to a house of about 100 predominantly over 55ers. They heartily joined in on the chorus, and it was a great success! This leaves me somewhat perplexed. If the song is from 1907, why would it still be around for people who grew up in the 1950s, but not be around for their children? Does anybody know if it was ever a hit in the mid 1900s, or perhaps it was a radio show theme song ...... or whatever. People my age (63) learned it from their parents, but where did THEY learn it? 1907 was a long time ago!

@mikelisacarb 7 жыл бұрын

Once again! Thank you so much for posting this!

@jasonfordney794 7 жыл бұрын

If it makes you feel any better- it's my daughter's favorite song and she is 3 years old. I find the song interesting in its anti-development message and mention of the "hickory stick!"-- in other words, teachers hitting kids. Crazy.

@mikelisacarb 7 жыл бұрын

Actually, the phrase is ... "Taught to the tune of a hickory stick", referring to the practice of a teacher's banging out a rhythm with a stick while the students recited the lessons. It really doesn't have anything to do with students getting hit with that stick.

@bindu492 2 жыл бұрын

We were a couple of kids

@sfisher923 2 жыл бұрын

Gen Z and I found this by looking up if the VN/Anime "School Days" shared a name since the Wikipedia article was titled "School Days (Visual Novel)" (Here is the refrain but with a bad summary of the Anime from one of the characters named Sekai) School days School days The guy is such a player Betraying me how cruel Now I feel really, really sick. *I'm now Dead*

@user-xu3wo1sf8b 10 ай бұрын

FriendlyFire: '"Ted Max's, Original Amateur Hour " WFIL 1950s television used "School Days" as it's theme music

@PapagenoMF 3 жыл бұрын

Now any teaching by "hickory stick" leads to LAWSUIT.

@CincyDude5 4 жыл бұрын

I don't know of any 40 story buildings that were around in 1907. Nevertheless, it's interesting that people were decrying development even back then. If only they knew...

@ulexite-tv Жыл бұрын

Oh, yes, they had them 40 stories tall. See Wikipedia for the 50 story Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, started in 1905 and and completed in 1909. It was actually being built as this song was published in 1907.

@Gallienus53 6 жыл бұрын

Actually I current sing a corrupted version of the refrain: "school days, reading and writing, and rithmatic: taught to the tune of a hickory stick". The awfulness of my tone deaf singing & the words are useful for getting my son out of bed for school. I just wish that there were more useful words in the song about "school days"...

@justaguy427 4 жыл бұрын

My version: School days School days Dirty ol' rotten school days Reading, writing, arithmetic, I beat up my teacher with a hickory stick

@mariliaandaluz5238 2 жыл бұрын

Eso cantaban los Cedarmont Kids.

@NostalgicMadelynruthknox2003 Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@lostsoul3154 7 жыл бұрын

Good job! Did this originate in America?

@sheetmusicsinger9651 7 жыл бұрын

This is American, though the lyricist Will D. Cobb wrote Goodbye Dolly Gray with an English setting.

@veerchasm1 3 жыл бұрын

We sang this together in our Zoom class today... No we didn’t, we listened to Drake

@MamaJacqueroo 5 жыл бұрын

Who knows what a sleight is?

@sheetmusicsinger9651 5 жыл бұрын

Slate? a chalkboard

@wendygr4449 5 жыл бұрын

To the death. $272.5 million dollars. 18 inches verizon no sim card he couldn't find it. Apple wifi. Sit down Brian John. String them up.

@scolopede 3 жыл бұрын

I hate that song, my mother would sing it after Summer was over, on the morning of the first day of school, bad times, one man's trash is another man's treasure. Hickory stick? That's corporal punishment, I can't believe this song is posted on the tube. ...just a little sarcasm.